South Australia
singer/songwriter Alex Hosking has released her premier long-playing record,
“Wish”
South Australia
singer/songwriter Alex Hosking has released her premier long-playing record,
“Wish.” The album is partly pop and
partly indie rock with a Sheryl Crow attitude and a Tori Amos heart. Hosking is gratuitous in her positivity and
optimism, her songs almost universally light of spirit and entirely unfettered
by melodrama of any kind. The album is
humble, yet ambitious, fecund with ostentatious talent without seeming
vain.
Her tracks are original and wholly her own, taken from a
repertoire which she began writing at the age of ten. Live performances commenced almost
simultaneously.
“I performed my first song at church on
Christmas day as a young girl,” she says.
Regarding her attitude toward songwriting she declares, “My
mind is a circus and my heart is open.”
Indeed, her lyrics seem drawn from a secret autobiography at times – not
to say from a diary, which would be unfair to the maturity of her work, which
also bears mention. “Why do we do it: talk?” she asks with the
insouciance of a philospher in her song, “Bright Green.” She follows this query with a buoyant
assertion belying her youth: “I don’t want to, I don’t have to.” Her effervence contains a dark spot of yang
to balance the brightness of her yin, however, evident in precocious lines
like, “I’m afraid of what I’ve become,” a spooky thing to hear sung with
conviction from a woman just entering her twenties.
The artist from Adelaide calls her
flowering musical career a “wish come true,” from which it must be inferred the
title of Hosking’s record comes, but wishing on stars cannot be the source of
her popularity when the sheer talent of her performances is outstripped only by
the genius of her writing. Among her
influences she lists the Chili Peppers, Sia, Beyonce, the Kooks, and – most
bogglingly – Biggie Smalls. Watch for
said influence, though, during the bridge of “Uneven Hedges,” when she
commences to pound out chords on her piano and rap like an unknown and unlikely
member of NWA, saying, “We still got terrorists here, livin’ in the USA:
the big CIA, Bloodz, Crips, the KKK.”
The versatility of Alex Hosking is a thing to behold.
Undoubtedly Hosking has an
overabundance of musical expertise, but, as her website states very clearly, “most
importantly she is authentic.”
-S. McCauley
Staff Press Release Writer
MondoTunes
The LP “Wish”
is distributed globally by MondoTunes (www.MondoTunes.com) and is available at iTunes for convenient
purchase and download
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ARTIST CONTACT INFO:
dhosking@bigpond.net.au
alexhosking.com
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