Rising singer-songwriter Mikayla Pasterfield emerges today with the heartfelt ‘Heritage Listed’. LISTEN + WATCH HERE.

Calling to mind Lizzy McAlpine and Noah Kahan, ‘Heritage Listed’ casts a local lens on a universal sentiment of ‘home is where the heart is’, for better or worse. Effectively straddling affection and rancour – “Now I don’t think there’s any shame in wanting more than the opportunities my hometown is offering” through to “If I go I know I’ll return, there are bridges I refuse to burn” – Mikayla pushes past nostalgia on ‘Heritage Listed’, harnessing the liberty of possibility as she navigates the complicated desire to step outside of one’s hometown bubble, while not wanting to leave forever.

Arriving alongside music video exploring suburban life, ‘Heritage Listed’ visually captures a vignette of the town that raised Mikayla, traipsing through central locations amongst her friends. In Mikayla’s words, “Heritage Listed describes that itch for a change of scenery, while still holding so much love and appreciation for the stability and peaceful monotony that you grew up with. The song is written as the internal thought process that goes into making the decision to leave, describing the need to give yourself permission before you can make that leap. It essentially says ‘everything will be right where you left it’ to ease the internal worry of losing the life you’ve built in favour of something else.”

WATCH: ‘Heritage Listed’ (Official Video)

With just two releases to her name, Mikayla Pasterfield’s story is already the stuff of legend. Raised on the outskirts of Camden, NSW and motivated to share songs from the heart she stumbled into music accidentally – a “high school scheduling mishap” – that could never anticipate the global resonance of her debut single ‘Damage You Still Do’. Over a million streams, triple j playlisting and millions of tiktok views with comments from Gracie Abrams (“YEAHHHHHHH”), Zach Bryan (“no sike. you’re such a great writer”), Chelsea Cutler (“Wow”) and more.

Honing her penmanship over the years with second single ‘Bindi In The Dirt’, a haunting vignette of a relationship through love and loss praised as “another striking example of Pasterfield’s songwriting prowess” (SXSW Sydney), Mikayla’s sights are firm on transforming her buzz into securing her place as one of the country’s next best songwriters, captivating audiences across BIGSOUND to shows with Laurel, Nick Mulvey, GRAACE and more. Moments away from revealing her formal introduction with her debut EP, now is the time to get familiar with Mikayla Pasterfield.