Back in her barista days, Pilbeam uploaded single “Try” to Triple J’sdiscovery platform, a step that, for some artists, yields increased exposure, but caught her a lucky break. A lifelong resident of Brisbane, Pilbeam played piano and guitar throughout primary school and near the end of high school joined a local band where she sang backing vocals and played bass. She eventually started writing her own tunes, including a few for that group, who are on hiatus.
Once “Try” found airwaves success, it was “all systems go”: Pilbeam graduated college, moved houses, left her job and found time to patch together the EP and, suddenly, music wasn’t just a hobby anymore. Now, at 25, she’s helming her own band and has a fast-growing international fanbase. Last year she toured the U.S. with modern indie-pop heroes Alvvays and traversed the country again this year with Girlpool. She says she expected some traction in the U.K.
“I just wanted to expand on my sound a little bit,” she says. “I didn’t want to just keep making the same bright, bubbly pop music.” “There are definitely a couple of songs that sound like they are about romance, but they’re actually just about a friend,” she says. “It’s also hard to say, ‘cause I’ve been in a relationship for five years, so even though I’m very much in love, it’s like I can’t even remember how much of a hopeless romantic I was. But I guess it depends on how you define romance. It was really important to me that I wrote songs about friends on this album, so I did it with a couple.
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