Emily Barker announces new album Fragile as Humans

Award-winning singer-songwriter Emily Barker is set to release her new album, Fragile as Humans, on Friday, May 3.

The Bridgetown-raised artist will celebrate the release with a launch show at Lyric’s Underground on Sunday, July 7.

The new record was produced at storied English studio The Wool Hall by Luke Potashnick (Gabrielle Aplin, Jack Savoretti, Alberta Cross). It is Barker’s first album for nearly four years, following A Dark Murmuration of Words, which Uncut called “…a kind of Australian equivalent of PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake.”

Emily Barker had early success as the writer and performer of the theme to the hugely successful BBC/PBS Masterpiece crime drama Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh, and has since gone on to forge an acclaimed catalogue of releases.

Barker has released music and toured as a solo artist as well as with various bands and collaborations, most notably her long association with Frank Turner, and has written for TV and film, including composing the soundtrack for Jake Gavin’s lauded debut feature Hector starring Peter Mullan and Keith Allen.

Emily Barker’s new album Fragile as Humans is out Friday, May 3, 2024. Emily Barker plays Lyric’s Underground on Sunday, July 7, 2024. For more info and to buy tickets, head to tickets.oztix.com.au