Bonniesongs - Strangest Feeling *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 19th September 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

Impressed are proud to present, Bonniesongs, aka Irish-born, Australian-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Bonnie Stewart's second album Strangest Feeling on limited edition vinyl. Strangest Feeling is a collection of songs written amongst the limbo of the lockdowns and the transition back to life. A flavour of autumn runs through the album, intwined with themes of spells, the ocean and Halloween. The punky riffs and driving drums of new single Olive Oil and the album’s second single Bittersweet are reminders of fun and joy, with Bittersweet offering a slice of unadulterated punky grunge in the playful ode to finding fun in chaos, inspired by Bonnie’s stay in New Zealand during the pandemic.  

The album’s first single, Halloween Birthday (notably released last year on the 31 October) is a more lo-fi affair with finger plucked melody, its autumnal hues giving off a beguiling witchy feel. Bonniesongs’ describes it, alongside the songs Weightless and Keeper, as “the tracks on the album inspired by nostalgia, secrets and space.” Their hypnotic feel and slow tempos create a feeling of rest to the end of the album. Olive Oil has a playfulness that recalls 90s Americana indie such as Pavement, with the song’s prominent drums inspired by Deerhunter’s track Never Stops. “I wrote Olive Oil while visiting Wellington, New Zealand. I had recently started a game with friends where we list our top 5 favourite things. Olive oil, ocean, sunshine are some things that bring me joy. I wanted a happy, light-hearted song.” - Bonniesongs  

It is a good taster for the album, with heavy thrums of detuned guitars entwined with layers of angelic airy vocals, Strangest Feeling is a masterclass in balancing sound and silence, reminding us that music, at its core, is simple vibration moving through air. Bonniesongs makes music that is both mellow and hazy and driven and edgy, traversing art-folk, psychedelia, dream-pop and grunge. She could also be compared to art-rock and alternative artists such as PJ Harvey, Feist and Grouper for her music’s raw, hypnotic qualities, although Bonniesongs’ style sits more in a ‘ethereal grunge’ category of its own, one she’s been carving out since her 2019’s debut album Energetic Mind (Small Pond/Art As Catharsis).  

Once described by artist Fink, who championed Bonniesongs heavily on his KCRW radio show and toured Australia with her early this year as having “a deceptively hard edged soft-core.” The album’s ‘love songs’ come in the form of art-rock pop ballad and album opener Dragon, the grungy psych-folk of Whipping Bird and the dreamy indie-rock of title track Strangest Feeling (a semi-finalist within two categories in the International Songwriting Competition), collectively exploring relationships with others and oneself.   

The haunting layers of vocals, whistles and strings of Take Off offer the album’s most emotive song however, with Bonniesongs taking the listener on an emotional journey exploring connection to place and home, capturing the unrest of missing home when you move country. As with a few tracks on the album, the unsettling times of the pandemic lace the songs with the strange otherworldliness of that time. On Strangest Feeling Bonniesongs tackles the most visceral of life experiences, with all their sharp edges, then wraps them in a sensory, expansive cloud of dream-like glaze. 

Tracklist:
1. Dragon  
2. Strangest feeling  
3. Bittersweet  
4. Runs into stay fun  
5. Stay fun  
6. Olive oil  
7. Take off  
8. Halloween birthday  
9. Whipping bird  
10. Weightless  
11. Keeper 

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