Achingly uncooked, radiant, and redemptive, GUTHRIE’s spirited “Adrenals” turns burnout and collapse into breathtaking catharsis – a soul-stirring reckoning with failure, therapeutic, and the unusual great thing about starting once more. The Melbourne singer/songwriter (and Atwood artist-to-watch) opens up in regards to the journey that led to this second of readability – a hard-won awakening that finds peace within the wreckage, channeling give up into survival and survival into tune.
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“Feeding my adrenals damaged up glass, don’t have a look at me like that.”
There’s a line in GUTHRIE’s newest single that lands like a intestine punch – vivid, unsettling, and quietly illuminating suddenly. “Adrenals,” the Australian artist’s first launch in three years, is a dreamy, gently aching tune that looks like each a confession and a catharsis – the sound of somebody discovering magnificence within the breaking. It’s as uncooked as it’s radiant, a young tempest of self-revelation and launch. Lush, tempered guitars and dynamic drums accompany T’s stirring voice, making a singular, soul-stirring expertise that hits laborious and lingers lengthy after it ends.
Properly it seems what I wished
Was studying rightness into all my pale phrases
And trickle right down to the place my coronary heart is
I couldn’t hear it if it mentioned a phrase
Reside life feeling like unburdened
I would like you want that, I would like you want that
Returning the right individual
To stitch one of many scraps we had
What’s most placing about “Adrenals” is its duality – the way in which ache and peace, exhaustion and elation, appear to occupy the identical area. The instrumentation strikes with a gradual, deliberate pulse, mirroring the physique’s personal rhythms: Heartbeat, breath, the rise and fall between collapse and restoration. There’s fragility right here, but additionally an simple energy – the type that doesn’t announce itself, however grows steadily from inside.
Written within the aftermath of burnout and self-reconstruction, “Adrenals” captures what T Guthrie describes as “a second of euphoric realisation that not solely is it okay to fail, however generally it’s solely by being damaged open that we realise who we actually are.”
Earlier than this realization, Guthrie had been residing at full tilt – splitting time between their band and a venture-backed social enterprise they’d constructed from the bottom up. Their life was divided into two seemingly reverse worlds – one constructed on creativity, the opposite on knowledge. “My associates and I play alt-folk music with the occasional ‘80s synth for good measure,” they share. “I grew up taking part in guitar with some pet goats about an hour and a half from Naarm (Melbourne), and after highschool moved to the large metropolis to review pure maths and philosophy. Don’t get me incorrect, I really like a wall-length proof with not a quantity in sight as a lot as the subsequent individual – however I used to be excited to work on the issues that have been conserving me up at night time, largely round numerous axes of inequality.”
These twin passions – artwork and activism – ultimately merged.
“I began taking part in music once more with my band, and I began working in knowledge activism,” Guthrie continues. “I believe the frequent thread was speaking in numerous methods about subjects that may be laborious to speak about. With the band, we bought performed on Triple J a bunch of occasions and performed at a few of my favorite festivals, together with St Kilda, Blissful Wanderer, and Gaytimes MF. One tune I wrote referred to as ‘Dickhead Music,’ about leaving abusive relationships, made it to the finals of the Music Victoria Awards alongside Courtney Barnett, Julia Jacklin, and Baker Boy.”
On the identical time, Guthrie based a social enterprise, centered in knowledge activism, that grew right into a venture-backed software program startup. “It was a complete rollercoaster for just a few years there,” they recall. “A number of the largest names in Australian tech invested in us, we bought coated by Forbes, the ABC used the software program for his or her knowledge evaluation, and one non-profit used it to create the largest research on interval poverty in historical past, involving knowledge from 153,000 folks.” However that success got here at a value. “I bought an increasing number of disconnected from the origins of why I wished to construct one thing within the first place,” they admit. “In the long run it didn’t work, and we shut down, and I bought tremendous burnt out. My co-founder at one level took me into the ER as a result of I may barely stroll, and as soon as we closed up store, I spent whereas on my house ground.”
It was an actual “how did I get right here?” second – one which compelled Guthrie to decelerate and pay attention inward. “Songwriting actually helped me perceive,” they clarify. “I might pay attention again to the songs I’d write and assume, ‘ooooh… in order that’s how you are feeling?’” “Adrenals,” particularly, felt like a message from someplace deep inside. “As an example, the refrain begins ‘feeding my adrenals damaged up glass,’ which wasn’t one thing I’d consciously chosen to write down – that’s not the way it occurs for me, largely. It simply got here out of my mouth as I used to be taking part in guitar at some point after work. And I heard it and thought, ‘oh shit’ – like my unconscious was delivering me a message I wasn’t actually prepared to listen to.”
The tune’s title alone hints on the physique’s response to disaster – that push-pull of survival intuition and exhaustion – and thru it, GUTHRIE transforms bodily and emotional depletion into one thing therapeutic, human, and alive.
That rigidity performs out most vividly within the refrain, the place they sing their coronary heart out:
Feeding my adrenals damaged up glass
Don’t have a look at me like that…
Keen like I’m profitable once I come final
Don’t have a look at me like that…
If every part that goes out has to return again
I’ll learn you want I’m written as a tough draft
Giving up factor that I don’t have
Don’t have a look at me like that…
It’s a rush of self-awareness and give up, capturing the unusual adrenaline of exhaustion – that intuition to maintain operating even when the physique is spent. The imagery of “feeding my adrenals damaged up glass” feels virtually primal – the physique consuming its personal ache, metabolizing heartbreak into endurance. The repeated plea, “Don’t have a look at me like that,” lands like each a defend and a confession: a recognition of disgrace, vulnerability, and the will to nonetheless be seen by it.
“Keen like I’m profitable once I come final” is itself a haunting line – one which turns self-deprecation into self-acceptance. You possibly can really feel the ache of striving, the weariness of all the time pushing ahead, and but there’s a flicker of sunshine in how they sing it, a understanding smile breaking by the fatigue. That is the second the place “Adrenals” transcends confession and turns into one thing nearer to launch – a shedding of strain, a reclaiming of breath.
By the point Guthrie reaches “I’ll learn you want I’m written as a tough draft,” there’s a gentleness there, a willingness to simply accept imperfection as a part of the method. The refrain turns into an emotional cycle in itself – depletion, self-awareness, acceptance, and launch – a musical embodiment of what it means to interrupt down and start once more.
Over time, that unconscious message grew to become a map ahead for Guthrie.
“As I stored writing, one thing mysterious began to occur,” they mirror. “It was virtually like I used to be writing into existence the longer term that I wished – to really feel prefer it was okay to fail, to have power again, to be prepared for the subsequent journey.”
That sense of renewal breathes by each line of “Adrenals.” What started as exhaustion become a reclamation of self – a delicate, defiant act of rebuilding. “In the future, surrounded by the quiet of the forest close to my mum’s home in Daylesford, the remainder of the tune simply type of arrived,” Guthrie says. “Regardless of the grim starting, it ended up being extra in regards to the joys of lastly giving up one thing that’s not working and getting to seek out out extra intimately who you really are.”
Their buddy, artist Gaia Scarf, referred to as it an “epiphany tune” – an outline Guthrie embraces wholeheartedly. “That’s truthfully spot on,” they are saying, “as a result of that’s what it felt like – a sort of awakening.”
And you’ll hear that awakening in the way in which “Adrenals” slowly opens up — its remaining refrains glowing with quiet triumph. It’s the sound of exhaustion transmuted into power, of heartbreak become one thing virtually holy. What started as a reckoning turns into a renewal: a sonic testomony to the unusual great thing about falling aside and beginning once more.
“Adrenals” is a tune that lives in movement — shifting between stillness and launch, fragility and energy. Guthrie threads rigidity by each chord, each breath, till it turns into one thing virtually transcendent: a meditation on the physique and thoughts studying to belief one another once more. It’s not only a confession, however a reclamation – a reminder that therapeutic hardly ever occurs in silence; it trembles, pulses, and hums.
Attempting to pretend and joyfully failing
My interactions with uncomplicated phrases
And there’s a boldness within the breaking
To stroll round on a heel that doesn’t harm
Good for a distinct individual
This story I had I’m giving it again
Broad eyed for the world I’m studying
Strikes underneath these ideas I had
That act of give up – of letting go and studying to stay once more – turns into the tune’s quiet triumph.
You possibly can hear it within the interaction between Guthrie and collaborator James Seymour (Feelds), their voices echoing one another like two sides of the identical realization. What begins as solitude slowly blooms into connection, till the tune feels communal, cathartic, brimming with life.
There’s reality in each syllable, and a way of liberation in each be aware. Aching in and out, “Adrenals” looks like an awakening – uncooked, trustworthy, and tenderly triumphant, the sort of tune that finds you if you want it most.
Feeding my adrenals damaged up glass
Don’t have a look at me like that,
don’t have a look at me like that
Keen like I’m profitable once I come final
Don’t have a look at me like that,
don’t have a look at me like that
If every part that goes out has to return again
I’ll learn you want I’m written as a tough draft
Giving up factor that I don’t have
Don’t have a look at me like that,
don’t have a look at me like that
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