This week's PBS Feature Album is the self-titled debut album from Milly Strange.
Blending raw lyrical honesty with vivid imagery and a dynamic alt-rock sound, Milly Strange captures the tension between vulnerability and strength as she moves through pain toward renewal. The eight-track release is a cathartic exploration of grief, inner conflict, and personal transformation, tracing the emotional terrain of heartbreak, old friendships, and versions of the self left behind.
Raised on a rich sonic diet of Johnny Cash, David Bowie, Tom Waits and Martha Wainwright, Milly’s early influences evolved into a deep reverence for songwriters like PJ Harvey, Angel Olsen, Ora Cogan, Cat Power, Adrianne Lenker, and Sharon Van Etten. Her music thrives on contrasts - light and dark, past and present, beauty and unease, as powerfully demonstrated on her debut album.
Milly Strange comprises songs; some old, some new, and some somewhere in between. Milly shares, “Writing these songs felt psychologically and emotionally necessary,” says Milly. “Each one helped me give form to a part of myself I wasn’t ready to confront in real life.”
The album release will be celebrated with headline shows in Eora/Sydney at The Union Hotel on Saturday August 30 and in Naarm/Melbourne at the Northcote Social Club on Thursday September 18.
Check out a clip of Milly performing 'Diane' and I'll Be The One You Call' live on The Breakfast Spread below:
Tune in all this week to hear tracks from Milly Strange and PBS Members have the chance to win a digital copy of the album: simply email your name and membership number to before midnight Sunday August 24.
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TOP TRACKS WE'RE LOVING THIS WEEK
Maryam Rahmani - 'Khayyam'
Sleep D - 'Gummy Drop'
Full Flower Moon Band - 'Harder Man' feat. Nicholas Allbrook
Cong Josie & Garry Sacred - 'Fast Money Music'
Bumpy - 'Cosy Comfy'
Hannah McKittrick - 'Crowd Scene'
Logic1000 - 'toldmyself'
The Vovos - 'What?'
The Maggie Pills - 'Swords & Knives'
Acopia - 'Real Life'
