Angus & Julia Stone Announce New Album ‘Karaoke Bar’, Share Title Track
Karaoke Bar is the follow-up to Angus & Julia Stone’s 2024 record Cape Forestier.
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Sydney siblings Angus and Julia Stone have announced the release of their seventh studio album, Karaoke Bar, out Friday 4 September via Virgin Music.
The duo’s new album finds Angus and Julia evolving as songwriters and musicians, writing and recording the album across Greece, France and Australia. Shaped by the people and places they encountered, the album’s title track is the first glimpse of what fans can expect from Karaoke Bar.
The track was born on the Greek island of Hydra between late-night recording sessions and days spent in the water. “It was a magical time on one of the strangest and most beautiful islands we've ever been to,” Angus recalls.
Julia adds, speaking of the single, “A night out at a karaoke bar can hold so much goodness… that’s what the song is about. Everyone has the chance to be heard. And it’s so often more than that, a moment of real connection. We’re together, singing with a roomful of strangers, and the things that normally separate us fall away.”
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Releasing their debut EP Chocolates and Cigarettes in 2006 and following up one year later with the EP Heart Full of Wine, Angus & Julia Stone truly announced themselves with the release of their hit studio album A Book Like This.
The duo’s sophomore album, Down the Way, was their first #1 album and earned the band five ARIA Awards and spawned the global hit single ‘Big Jet Plane’.
Their next three albums have all made the Top #5 of the ARIA Albums Chart, with Angus & Julia Stone having worked with Rick Rubin, released a soundtrack and sold out venues across the world, including London’s Royal Albert Hall, Paris’ L’Olympia and New York’s Town Hall.
‘Karaoke Bar’ by Angus & Julia Stone is out now. Listen here. Angus & Julia Stone’s Karaoke Bar is out Friday 4 September via Virgin Music. Pre-order here.
