BACKSTREET MAFIA (AU/UK) PREMIERE: THE FELICITY CRIPPS BAND PEERS ‘INSIDE A KEYHOLE’ AND CREATES A TRANSFIXING, GLITTERING WORLD.

We are honoured to premiere the new single ‘Inside A Keyhole’ from the Felicity Cripps Band: a gently floating ethereal bundle of joy that shimmers and sparkles under Cripps’s velvet vocals and the arpeggiated guitars and instrumentation.

There is a psychedelic blush to the track – the transfixing and hypnotic vocals have a Beach Boys harmonic shimmer that reaches an anthemic crescendo as the song ends. It’s a gorgeous slice of immersive dreamy pop that leaves you in a state of blissful euphoria. There are traces of Sharon Van Etten, a little sixties doo-wop, a hint of Joni Mitchell or Carol King and more contemporary dream pop queens like Hatchie or Alvvays, but ultimately there is something substantially quite unique.

Amongst the throes of raising her newborn daughter, a newfound lockdown-altered reality, and running arts institution and venue Theatre Royal Castlemaine, which she owns and operates with her husband, Cripps wrote ‘Inside A Keyhole’ to hold on to her sense of self. She says:

Where once I’d get caught up in my own head, now I could just enjoy the day. I realised that
once our attention on the noise subsides, there is so much magic around — it’s enough to
make you laugh! And it’s always there, we just miss it. I needed to write this song to remind
me of that feeling. Like a portal back into that place of contentment, where nothing matters, where we can just simply ‘be’.