LADYHAWKE: Flying High

After a challenging few years and series of lifechanging events, both globally and personally, Ladyhawke (‘Pip’ Brown) is back and better than ever.

Ladyhawke’s highly anticipated fourth album Time Flies, released November 19, captures the joy and nostalgia of the 2000s, while also embracing a fresh focus on lyricism and emotion. One quick listen and it is easy to see that the past few years have been both transformative and reflective for Pip Brown.

While the world was seemingly at a standstill, Brown was experiencing the ups and downs of life personally. With the joys of marriage and the birth of her baby daughter, came the blues of post-natal depression, a skin cancer diagnosis and a global pandemic. But nothing can hold Pip Brown back!

After a five-year hiatus, Pip feels this new album is her rebirth as a musician.

“I was feeling pretty grateful to be alive and making music, so I felt like I didn’t ‘care’ anymore – not in a bad way, I just stopped over thinking it,” she said. The album’s November release followed the huge success of its first single, Guilty Love, a collaboration with Broods. Grounded on the experiences of growing up religious, the song and accompanying video were personal for Pip Brown and Broods’ lead vocalist Georgia Nott.

Mixed Emotions, the album’s second single, was written with Jono Sloan and Nick Littlemore. When speaking about the meaning, Pip said: “The song is about all the things you can feel with one person, sometimes all in a single day. Ups and downs, confusion, highs, and lows. And everything in between!”

In addition to the album’s release, Ladyhawke is touring the Australian east coast in February and March of 2022. Tickets are selling fast, but if you manage to secure tickets, it will be a show you do not want to miss.

You can listen to Ladyhawke’s new album Time Flies on all major music streaming platforms now.

WRITTEN BY SOPHIE BURLEY

PHOTOGRAPHY BY LULA CUCCHIARA