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Track: Merpire shares the gorgeous yearning ‘Leaving With You’ off her forthcoming album ‘MILK POOL’.
Naarm/Melbourne Merpire, the exquisite work of multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter Rhiannon Atkinson-Howatt, continues to dangle sonic enticements ahead of her album ‘MILK POOL’ due out on 4 July 2025. Next cab off the rank is the soaring lush sounds of ‘Leaving With You’, exhibiting a delicate yearning romanticism over the rich guitars: I only stay in …
News: Merpire announces a new album ‘MILK POOL’ with the anthemic, ethereal single ‘Bigger’.
Naarm/Melbourne Merpire, the work of multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter Rhiannon Atkinson-Howatt, has long been a source of admiration here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia, and her new single ‘Bigger’ is another drop of dreamy pop gold in her sonic armoury. Bigger is an indeed appropriate title for a song that is luminescent and …
Track: Merpire has a ‘Premonition’ – a deliciously yearning and romantic track, ahead of live appearance.
It’s been four years since we reviewed Merpire‘s last official release, the album ‘Simulation Ride’, and the Naarm/Melbourne-based award-winning multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter (the nom-de-plume of Rhiannon Atkinson-Howatt) is back with a new single ‘Premonition’. Merpire’s yearning style and velvet soft vocals remains to the fore in this silky smooth track, filled with a languorous …
Live Review + Photo Galleries: Jebediah brings their OIKS tour to Hobart along with special guests, Magic Dirt and Merpire.
Jebediah’s Oiks! tour rolled on into Hobart following on from two previous Tasmanian shows at Forth and Launceston. With Australian rock royalty, Magic Dirt and Melbourne singer-songwriter, Merpire in tow, the evening promised to be a beauty……and a beauty it was!! Merpire kicked off proceedings with her songs of vulnerability and inner truths, entertaining a …
Album review: Merpire’s debut album ‘Simulation Ride’ is beautifully crafted rock serving to soothe the lost and lonely
Purveyor of sensitively insightful indie, Melbourne’s Merpire has just released her long-awaited debut album Simulation Ride via Warner’s ADA. The record is a heartening and satisfying culmination of the artist’s favourite songs, taken from the ‘video store of her mind’ and written over the course of the past few years. Merpire also co-produced with partner …