Concrete Playground

Shaking off the New Buffalo moniker after two beautiful records and years of delighting live audiences, Sally Seltmann has emerged with the first record using her own name. There's no distance between the singer and her songs anymore and no stage name, just a gem of a pop record in Heart That’s Pounding. Having written Feist's hit tune '1234' — a song that had enough legs to walk itself on over to Sesame Street — it seems time that Seltmann stood her ground as the confident and lovely musician that she is.

There is, sure, an ethereality to the sounds of Heart That's Pounding — a constant wash of morning sunlight filtering through the songs — but they also have that pop radio classic sensibility to them, an aim apparently of Seltmann’s. Her breathy vocals and playful melodic twists are a delight on the stereo but more so in person. Having just returned from a US tour, Seltmann will launch the record in Sydney on Friday with special guests Parades and Kyu.