Jack River – folk-rock songs laced with acid

Well-established Aussie artist Jack River returns with a new single after coming off tour with Florence and The Machine and Angus and Julia Stone.

Holly Rankin, who performs as Jack River, is a singer-songwriter, musician, and producer based in Sydney. Her successful debut album Sugar Mountain has reached over 30 million play and ‘Adolescent’ will be on the upcoming Deluxe edition.

Her tunes are described as “folk songs laced with acid” and the latest, ‘Adolescent’, is no different. The song is a boycott to conventional pop subject matter, questioning youth’s age old obsession with love and lust.

Calling out the façade of social media culture’s infatuation with aesthetics, this is a song for all the boys and girls chasing something deeper and grittier, something with meaning.