Indie Folk from Tess Liautaud

Originally from Paris and now based in New Zealand, Tess Liautaud is an indie artist who makes delightful folk style music. As a vegetarian she cares for the world around her and the creatures that inhabit it, taking that sense of care and applying it to her writing.

Her debut eponymous album is set to be released in the very near future featuring her delicate vocal work and colourful instrumentation on songs written by her from her journey and experiences around the world. In the build up to the album release, she’s dropped two singles and shares with us her introduction with the track “Breezy As”.

An ode to feeling lost but staying hopeful, the song is about knowing you need to rely and depend on yourself while finding comfort in the stranger situations of life that sometimes feel clumsy and uncertain. While written about a building sense of self-doubt, the track holds an upbeat sound of catchy and airy folk rock writing, just as the title suggests; it’s breezy as.

Featuring Julian Rowe on drums, Sam Taylor on bass, guitarist Jacob Smith and Ken Bronowski on additional guitar and hammond organ which was recorded in Indiana, the track was producer Steve Harrop at Studio Sublime in Kurow.

On the new single Tess says, “It has a lot of that imprint of how things felt then, days were only getting shorter, feeling rushed by whatever life is meant to be, especially as we got out of lockdown and feeling like things had to be back to the pace they were at before… it was hard to get my mind readjusted, but also realising there’s no rush…”

Adding, “Sonically it makes me nostalgic of the people and life in this little mountain town, where life can be quite carefree too and where community plays an important aspect. I wanted to make a song that had that uplifting feeling. A sort of little indie rock/pop anthem for life these days, with a kiwi reference in the title Breezy As.”

Listen to Breezy As below