For nearly two decades, Angus & Julia Stone have built music that feels suspended somewhere between memory and drift, songs that move slowly but leave a lasting imprint. Now, the sibling duo have returned with new single Karaoke Bar alongside the announcement of their seventh studio album Karaoke Bar, due out on 4 September.
The track signals a subtle shift in atmosphere for the pair. While much of their catalogue has often leaned toward solitude and introspection, “Karaoke Bar” opens outward instead, shaped around ideas of shared experience, fleeting connection and communal release. Written during time spent on the Greek island of Hydra, near the former home of Leonard Cohen, the song captures the strange intimacy of late-night spaces where strangers briefly collapse into the same emotional wavelength.
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That environment appears to have deeply informed the album itself. Recorded across Greece, France and Australia, Karaoke Bar carries the imprint of movement and travel throughout its creation.
It also marks another evolution for a duo who have quietly become one of Australia’s most enduring musical exports. Since early releases like A Book Like This and the breakthrough success of Down the Way, the pair have consistently reshaped their sound without abandoning the emotional core that first connected with audiences. Their catalogue has stretched from folk minimalism to richer, more cinematic arrangements, while still revolving around the interplay between Angus and Julia’s contrasting voices.
That creative restlessness has carried through recent years as well. Their 2024 album Cape Forestier arrived ahead of a global theatre tour that included sold-out performances at venues like Royal Albert Hall and L’Olympia, reaffirming the scale of their international audience nearly twenty years into their career.
Following the release of “Karaoke Bar”, the duo will return to Europe and the UK for a series of intimate shows in Paris, London and Berlin this July. The timing feels fitting. Angus & Julia Stone have always excelled at creating music that thrives in close spaces: songs that feel less performed than quietly shared between people. “Karaoke Bar” leans into that instinct fully, treating music not simply as expression, but as a way of briefly dissolving the distance between strangers.
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