Feature: Emily Wurramara - Adore Me

📷 photo credit - Tony Mott 



Adore Me the latest release from Emily Wurramara is a sun-lit alt/indie/folk-pop meditation on love of all kinds for anyone who "has their sh*t together, but doesn't at the same time".

Adore Me is a love song with a twist - all jubilance and sunlight on first listen as it opens with the spellbinding woozy synths Emily Wurramara laid down on the track's original demo.

Building to a buoyant pop groove - but there is an ache for reciprocity underneath the surface, as she reflects on "the flaws and patterns humanity engage with,” when it comes to love in all its forms whether internal, external or universal: "all these different concepts of love we need to look at and embrace as society "  Wurramara says. To meditate on what we deserve from these relationships, especially when there is "so much pain in the world".

Co-produced by Wurramara with longtime collaborator James Mangohig (A.B. Original, Daniel Johns), decorated with rhythmic flourishes of various bells, medicine bowls and chimes and inspired by the way artists like Florence + the Machine and James Blake blend emotive lyrics with atmospheric soundscapes.

The song was recorded on Larrakia Country's/Darwin's Sands Studios with many more of NARA's players including Caiti Baker on vocal engineering duties and a rapturous chorus of friends, with additional production, mixing and instrumentation via Tony Buchen (G Flip, Mildlife - bass, synthesiser) at Church Street Studios who worked with Declan Kelly (Bernard Fanning - drums, percussion). 'Adore Me' stands as a testament to Wurramara's ability to ask the big, endlessly complex questions in the most healing, gorgeous, heart-on-sleeve ways - as she did on NARA - in a more expansive way than ever before, leaning further into the production instincts that helped to make her second album so singular. 
 
Wurramara explains: "I’m a chord girl - so after laying down the chords for 'Adore Me', I just sat there at two o’clock in the morning improvising. I heard the hook first, recorded it and then improvised the verse, which hasn’t changed since then. When it comes to songwriting, I feel like love songs are my superpower; I'm very well-versed and experienced in that. I’ve got a big heart, I’m a lover, and sometimes that can lead to challenges in the self and also within a relationship. But it’s all about growth. You’ve gotta go through that to understand the love you deserve and need. You grasp onto this idea of what adoration means, in the hope you find that, only to realise that, hey, maybe you should love yourself first? Set that standard for how you want to be loved. Relationships are a lot of work and I firmly believe that fostering these discussions, around love and vulnerability, can lead to greater understanding and connection between people who are longing for that profound experience. I think 'Adore Me' really captures that essence - and there’s this continuation of community with the way we recorded it, which I loved."

Songwriting helps Emily Wurramara make sense of the world,
“To me, songwriting is like a ceremony, it’s sacred,” she shares.
“It allows connection to happen; not to the physical, but to the soul, to the spirit.”

Emily Wurramara’s latest release 'Adore Me' is out now via ABC Music. 



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