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Julia Johnson has always been the careful crafter of her own musical universe. Raised in a musical family, she spent swathes of her childhood and teenage years holed up in her room teaching herself various musical instruments, writing songs and recording them on her father’s 4-track tape recorder. Shaped by the folk music scene that she grew up in, Johnson’s narratively rich, huge-hearted songs began connecting with audiences all over Australia with her first band Julia and the Deep Sea Sirens. Johnson came to national attention when she was one of the winners of the Triple J Unearthed Songwriting comp, receiving a masterclass from Gotye and Adalita. She went on to support a slew of iconic Australian artists including Courtney Barnett, Jen Cloher, Tim Rogers, Abbe May, and played venues of every size from cosy lounge rooms to Groovin the Moo. She is an artist distilling her craft, using a mix of ancient and futuristic instruments to communicate the nakedly personal.