Stella Bridie announces debut Speaking Terms EP + signing to 23 MGMT, Select Music & TBA Agency; listen to new single ‘Organ Donor’

Photo by Liv Fleming
October 25 2024

SPEAKING TERMS EP
Out Nov 28.
PRE-SAVE HERE

TRACKLIST
He Didn’t Mean It
Organ Donor
6 Foot Drop
Headlights

Organ Donor‘ is out now, buy/stream it here.

Stella Bridie returns with new single ‘Organ Donor’, marking the announcement of her debut EP, Speaking Terms due Nov 28 and her EP launch show at The Old Bar in Naarm/Melbourne on Dec 12. Along with this news, Stella unveils her signing to 23 PR & MGMT, and global booking agency teams in Casey O’Shaughnessy at Select Music (ANZ/ASIA) and Ryan Craven and Lindsey Schiffman at TBA Agency (NORTH AMERICA). LISTEN TO ‘ORGAN DONOR’ HERE + PRE-SAVE SPEAKING TERMS EP HERE + BUY TICKETS TO THE EP LAUNCH HERE.

Founder and director of 23 PR & MGMT, Melody Forghani reveals “Stella Bridie’s music quite literally stopped me in my tracks. I called her the very next day, and flew down to watch her perform a week later. Stella is a captivating force.”

“I am thrilled to welcome Stella Bridie to the Select Music roster,” shares Casey O’Shaughnessy. “I truly believe she is one of Australia’s most captivating songwriters, and alongside her dynamic live presence, I know she has a huge future ahead of her. I’m deeply honoured to be a part of her journey.” Ryan Craven and Lindsey Schiffman from TBA Agency add, “We’re so excited to be working with Stella. Her songwriting is incredible and we know it will resonate deeply with audiences across North America”

Cleverly forthright, ‘Organ Donor’ (produced by Gab Strum) continues Stella Bridie’s artistic stride of narrative lyricism. Finding light in the heartache, she reconciles with the desperate delirium of making anything work in relationships. Here, shared skin (literally) serves as a solution to the doom of solitary confinement, where loving so vulnerably feels like being flayed. On ‘Organ Donor’ the expectations and responsibilities of partners come under the microscope.


WATCH: Organ Donor (Visualiser)

Bridie reveals “Organ Donor is about trying to tear yourself apart so nothing is separating you and the person you’re about to lose. I think it takes a fair amount of time and distance to be able to write an honest break-up song because you have to be prepared to find the situation funny even though it’s all so dark. We ask insane things of each other in loving and then unloving each other – organ donation doesn’t seem too crazy a request, in comparison.”

What if you had one moment left to tell your story? On Speaking Terms, Stella excavates that impetus, facing fear with humour as she stoically addresses the inner and external uglies that hinder. Flagrantly frank – not be confused as begrudgingly – she digs deep to find the guts that transform one’s personhood. Potent and primal, her EP debut is set to establish Stella Bridie’s voice as a necessary addition to the indie landscape.

A cogent musician and creative across forms, she writes for the long walk home from the party where mind games dance. Balancing the catharsis of indie rock with etchings of pop-impulses – think boygenius crossed with Ethel Cain – she conceptualises disillusionment with gripping imagery. Her seemingly simplistic turn of phrase sung with visceral and affecting intent.

Just as her earlier single ‘He Didn’t Mean It’ made clear through playlisting on triple j and Unearthed, praise across Rolling Stone, NME, Ones To Watch, Spotify’s Fresh Finds and Apple Music’s New Music Daily, Heaps Local, Antidote; a stand out BIGSOUND debut and supports for Telenova and Lola Scott – Stella Bridie’s music leaves a lasting mark.