We've got more than a bit of love for Annie-Rose Maloney's new single.
Raised on Wadawurrung Country with a piano in the house and a granny who yodelled at bedtime, Annie-Rose Maloney grew up inspired by the likes of K.D.Lang’s Hymns of the 49th Parallel, The Be Good Tanyas and The Waifs, and writes devastating, joyful songs that are quite unlike anything else you’ve heard.
Annie-Rose Maloney
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Naarm/Melbourne-based alt-folk/country-ish singer and guitarist, Maloney today shares the new single ‘A Bit of Love’, an intimately stripped back song that opens her forthcoming debut album Circle Walking (releasing 28 Feb) which was inspired by her day job as a highschool teacher, and the importance of supporting young people through the myriad of ways they express themselves.
Fast becoming a favourite in the alt-folk worlds, Maloney has already supported the likes of Andy Shauf, Angel Olsen, Hurray for the Riff Raff and Angie McMahon despite only having released three singles – ‘I Run From Pain’ (2024), ‘Hold Me’ (2024) and ‘Lost In Coburg’ (2020) – and will perform at Meadow Festival this March in addition to two just-announced album launch shows in Naarm/Melbourne and Dja Dja Wurrung Country/Castlemaine with very special guests to be announced.
Maloney – who is also a Steiner school teacher – first penned ‘A Bit of Love’ after noticing, at earlier points in her teaching career, that some students create limitations for themselves, saying they could or couldn’t do specific things based purely on their academic grades, something she shares is “a really big pain for me to witness.”
Maloney wanted to celebrate all the ways we can be intelligent; our connection to our body, our creativity, our sensitivity, our passion, our curiosity, our memory, our sociability – highlighting the need to understand the breadth of intelligence, especially in young people, to encourage them to follow their hearts and continue expanding in their own ways.
“Young people who have already made up their minds on what they can and can’t do, and children who won’t try new things because they feel too ashamed that they won’t be good enough. It’s really devastating. Young people need to be celebrated and encouraged or we see so many of them feeling defeated when their lives have just begun.”