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Written by: Tom Wilson @thetomwilsonexperiment - Sense Music Media | Friday 5th August 2022
Five of the Best from Leanne Tennant
LT – Leanne Tennant – has released Rollercoaster, a poignant piece of dream pop inspired by the ups and downs of caring for someone with mental health issues. From Picasso to Selma Blair, here are five pieces of art that make LT tick …
Picasso – The Weeping Woman
When I was writing/recording Rollercoaster, I had a rare day off to explore Melbourne before I was set to fly home to Cairns. I visited the National Gallery of Victoria and was lucky enough to see my very first Picasso. I couldn’t stop staring at it and was mesmerised by the work and the fact I was looking at a real-life Picasso. The Weeping Woman is about the inhumanity of warfare and shows a woman’s grief laid bare for public scrutiny, and is displayed in a seas of green which happens to be my favourite colour.
LT - Record Stores
This track is off my last album, Happiness Is…. I wrote it after having a particularly bad day and struggling to manage my own anxiety and spiral thinking. To help myself snap out of it I decided to start spinning records and my mind instantly shifted, then I wrote this song. It’s an important song to me as it reminds me of why I do music in the first place. It’s because it helps my brain and is a healthy way for me to release things that I’m holding on to. Music is such an important tool.
Selma Blair – Mean Baby
I love to read, but I often find it difficult to have enough uninterrupted time, and even when I do manage to get time my brain can sometimes resist this and get distracted too easily! However, I recently bought the new autobiography by Selma Blair called Mean Baby and I can’t put it down. She’s a wonderful writer and it’s so nice to settle into a book again and be completely captured by it. I applaud her for her bravery in writing and releasing something so deeply personal.
NIRVANA – Bleach
This album helped me through my teenage years and whenever I randomly hear someone playing a track off it, it fills my heart with such an intense energy that I have to go back and listen to it.
Greg Dwyer
One of my best friends paints the most wonderful paintings. I have a couple of Dwyers now, but one of my favorites is a piece I purchased last year of a mystical scene with the most beautiful colors. He has a wonderful play on light and it drew me in immediately. It’s full of intense greens, blues, and yellows, and I have it hung on a burgundy wall so it really stands out. I love it. Also another of his which is Forever Young, a painting of an older man fishing in a lake and the reflection staring back at himself fishing as a young boy. It’s such a beautiful painting and then someone unfortunately pinched it online and now prints it on t-shirts all over. Go check him out if you get a chance.
Rollercoaster is out now.
Pictured: LT
Photo by: Rhea Caldwell