Sydney-based, Papau New Guinea-born future-soul artist NGAIIRE shares her emotionally charged new album, '3', via Majestic Casual. NGAIIRE has released two previous albums; neo-soul 'Lamentations' and pop-soul 'Blastoma'. Her third album began as an experiment in 2017 to go back to her home country with a small creative team in the hopes of extracting unique visual aspects of PNG culture to present in a contemporary context and alongside music that would be composed throughout and after the research period.

The result is '3', a perfectly acceptable odd number, just like her - a bit odd. A bit queer. A bit brought up in church. Thinks she’s a bit cool but really just a big nerd. As slow and breezy as a New Islander but also as stubborn and passionate as a Highlander. A bit Australian but also a bit Kiwi. A bit short and a bit not the right kind of black to be commercial enough. A bit full of joy but also a bit angry. A bit privileged but also a but disadvantaged. A bit obsessed with death, sex, life, spirits, fashion, expensive cocktails, art, board games, rice and bully beef, sitting on the beach all day and living beyond her means. And definitely not your normal cup of tea out of a dainty little English teacup. As much as she's tried to pour herself into that teacup over the years, she's accepted that she's really better suited to a brilliantly well charcoaled aluminum kettle full of black tea leaves cooked on a very lived in fire built upon the soil that smells like her mother, her Aine, her Pupu and and those that came before who said "reach for the stars but always come back to us".

Photo Credit: Dan Segal