Australia-born/Berlin-based singer-songwriter Ned Collette hasn’t exactly been wildly prolific since his solo career kicked off in the mid-2000s. Mixed Light, his latest, comes relatively hot on the heels of the masterful Our Other History from 2024; it’s another beauty, with Collette joined by such Down Under underground leading lights as Leah Senior, Chris Abrahams (The Necks), and Joe Talia (Jim O’Rourke, Oren Ambarchi, etc.), not to mention a gorgeous, all-too-brief guest spot from non-Aussie Bonnie Prince Billy on “In the Kitchen.”
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Ned Collette :: Our Other History
Ned Collette got his start in Melbourne’s experimental underground, and threads of improvisation and jazz still run through his work. Collette distills complicated ideas into clarity. He does this musically, letting cross currents of jazz and psych run through his folk melodies without muddying their purity. He does it lyrically, unspooling a novelist’s notebook of observation and conjecture in his songs with ease and a startling lack of drama.