A Loud Call is the new album from Australian songwriter and singer, Holly Throsby. It was recorded in a brick house on a leafy street in Nashville, Tennessee, in the early weeks of last November by engineer and producer Mark Nevers (Lambchop, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Andrew Bird).

Switching between her traveler’s guitar and a grand piano, Holly was accompanied by her long-time band as well as a handful of very special guests including Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (singing duet on ‘Would You?’) and members of Lambchop and Silver Jews (Matt Swanson on bass, Tony Crow on synthesizer and William Tyler on electric guitar).

From the swelling guitar feedback and beds of vocal harmonies which engulf the opening track (‘Warm Jets’), to the odd-pop, bicycle wheel percussion of‘Time it Takes' and the bright sparks of trumpets and pizzicato cellos on ‘One of You for Me’, A Loud Call is richer and more full-blooded than its predecessors. But for all its diversity, it is effortlessly cohesive: quotidian narratives, epigrams against heartbreak, and vivid, otherworldly fragments are anchored by Holly’s distinctive phrasing and lyrical concision.

Holly recorded her first two albums (2004’s On Night and 2006’s ARIA nominated Under the Town) in a farmhouse on a mountain on the Australian south coast. Both were critically acclaimed, locally and abroad. She has toured Australia many times and has played on various tours in the UK, Europe, America & Canada. She has toured on her own, with her band, and in support of artists such as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Joanna Newsom, Bill Callahan, David Pajo, The Eels, Micah P.

Hinson, Mark Kozelek, M. Ward, Devendra Banhart and Low. More recently Holly has appeared on In Field & Town, the new album by Hayden, and has joined Andrew Bird, New Buffalo and Oscar-winning songwriter Glen Hansard (The Frames) for live duets at various shows in Australia. She also wrote and illustrated twolimited-edition comic books, which she now sells at shows.

Apart from music Holly is interested in 20th century literature, films about small towns, humour, naive art, and dogs.

"Throsby's writing delights in the quotidian - her yielding, half- spoken vocals investing poetic distillations with an elusive profundity."
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MOJO

"Songs which feel like they have been constructed in the smallest and most solitary space. This is a sound of its own."
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ROLLING STONE

"Like I-Spy-With-My-Little-Eye set to music, or painting pictures with notes and quavers, Under The Town is a breath of fresh air. I guarantee – whatever your mood – that for half an hour at least you'll go to places you only dreamt of and wish you could stay there forever and a day."
8/10
DROWNED IN SOUND

“Throsby's carefully observed ideas and startling voice make the old feel new enough to make neck hairs stand on end, rapt.”
THE NEW YORK SUN

"This is the kind of album you want to keep to yourself. Not because you don't think others would feel the same way, but because after you've lived with it for a while Under the Townfeels as if it were made just for you."
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

"Lyrics resonating with the economic precision of a poem. Beautiful, fragile... a real pleasure."
THE AUSTRALIAN