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Is it too soon to declare Jack Colwell a truly significant force in modern Australian music? We think not. Not when you consider the people he brought together, the artists he supported and the countless lost souls who have already found salvation in his music.
Growing up on Sydney’s isolated Northern Beaches, Jack contended with immense trauma. He retreated into fantasies of being rescued by Elton John or Rufus Wainwright, and later drew strength from female songwriters such as Tori Amos, who wrote so powerfully about sexual assault.
His breakthrough came in 2015 when he released ‘Don’t Cry Those Tears’ from the EP Only When Flooded Could I Let Go. The single topped Australian radio charts and won him wide coverage.
But it was with his 2020 debut album, SWANDREAM, that he really went deep, with songs like ‘Conversion Therapy’, ‘PTSD’ and ‘The Sound of Music.’ NME declared SWANDREAM one of the top 5 Australian albums of 2020, Junkee called it “the fieriest and most beautiful album of the year so far” and Brooklyn Vegan praised its “lush, moody ballads and soaring anthems”.
Jack won the respect of musical heavyweights globally: he worked regularly with UK singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf, who became a close friend, and collaborated with Owen Pallett, HEALTH and Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins.
Like lightning in a bottle, Jack shone brightly and was gone too soon. His legacy lives on.
Growing up on Sydney’s isolated Northern Beaches, Jack contended with immense trauma. He retreated into fantasies of being rescued by Elton John or Rufus Wainwright, and later drew strength from female songwriters such as Tori Amos, who wrote so powerfully about sexual assault.
His breakthrough came in 2015 when he released ‘Don’t Cry Those Tears’ from the EP Only When Flooded Could I Let Go. The single topped Australian radio charts and won him wide coverage.
But it was with his 2020 debut album, SWANDREAM, that he really went deep, with songs like ‘Conversion Therapy’, ‘PTSD’ and ‘The Sound of Music.’ NME declared SWANDREAM one of the top 5 Australian albums of 2020, Junkee called it “the fieriest and most beautiful album of the year so far” and Brooklyn Vegan praised its “lush, moody ballads and soaring anthems”.
Jack won the respect of musical heavyweights globally: he worked regularly with UK singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf, who became a close friend, and collaborated with Owen Pallett, HEALTH and Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins.
Like lightning in a bottle, Jack shone brightly and was gone too soon. His legacy lives on.
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