Giddy didn’t grow up planning to become a musician. In fact, just a few years ago, the Sydney-based artist says she barely sang at all. Before songwriting entered the picture, her creative life existed elsewhere: poetry, photography, dance and fashion design, gradually pushed aside beneath the demands of working as a refugee lawyer. Music arrived almost accidentally after taking her mother to a singing class for Mother’s Day, a small gesture that ended up reopening a part of herself she thought had disappeared.
That experience now sits at the centre of songs for awkward spaces, Giddy’s debut record produced by Sean Carey. To be released later this year, the album examines the less romanticised parts of long-term relationships: frustration, emotional exhaustion, compromise and the uneasy spaces people move through when they decide to keep showing up for each other. New single ‘salt’, released on 15 May, captures that emotional balancing act with clarity. Built from ukulele-led songwriting that later expands into fuller arrangements, the track explores what happens when intimacy becomes both comfort and weapon. “You’ve been pouring salt into the wounds you know are deepest,” she sings, tracing the emotional fatigue of trying to hold onto someone while quietly running out of energy yourself.
There’s a conversational quality to Giddy’s writing that keeps the songs grounded. Even at its most vulnerable, ‘salt’ avoids melodrama, instead sitting inside the quieter realities of resentment, care and emotional dependency. The production mirrors that restraint too. Carey’s arrangements never overpower the material, allowing contributions from pianist Shannon Stitt, cellist Sophia Clark and percussionist Jess Ciampa to deepen the emotional weight without losing the intimacy of the original bedroom recordings.
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