"Sky Watching" is the first single from young sister duo Charm of Finches' soon to be released debut album, "Staring at the Starry Ceiling" (released  JULY 29 2016). 

MUSIC VIDEO: https://youtu.be/aoQpLe64pXc?list=PLoypTzPApxHaQ8ufjTilXEKW7xqbROnN_
All instruments were played by Mabel and Ivy including cello, violin, ukelele and glockenspiel. 

The song captures the wistfulness and melancholy of any kind of longing. 

The song didn't have a name for a long time and was just known as "the new song", until a small gig at Newport Bowls Club, where an elderly patron approached the girls after they had asked the audience to help them name the song.  He politely handed them a small folded piece of paper with the name "Sky Watching" written on it in perfect old-fashioned handwriting. 

Recorded at Head Gap Studio by Neil Thomason as well as by Nick Huggins and  Mabel Windred-Wornes.
Produced by Mabel Windred-Wornes and Nick Huggins in Point Lonsdale, VIC.
Mastered by Sam John at Precise Mastering, Scotland, UK.

Single cover photo by Loc Nguyen of W.D.N Photography

Sky Watching (Single Mix)

Melbourne sister duo Charm of Finches delivers intricate folk-pop that is simultaneously graceful and darkly bewitching. Their seamless blood harmonies traverse melancholy and wonder in equal measure.

The sisters, Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes, released their third full length album Wonderful Oblivion in 2021 through New York-based label AntiFragile Music to critical acclaim. They have since toured extensively through the UK, Europe and Canada in 2022/23.

Winners of the Australian Folk Music Awards Best Folk Album (2022) and Music Victoria Best Contemporary Folk Act (2021), their music has been nominated twice for the prestigious Australian Music Prize.

In February 2023 the sisters spent a month in rural Nova Scotia recording with acclaimed Canadian producer Daniel Ledwell (Jenn Grant, Oh Pep!), inspired by the frozen beauty of the landscape and their transient life on the road with their music. The result is their fourth studio album to be released in 2024.