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Liz Stringer returns with Sister, her first release since 2025’s acclaimed LP The Second High. Written about a close friend who died suddenly, Sister is a deeply personal reflection on friendship, grief and enduring love. Stringer is one of Australia’s most admired and versatile songwriters and instrumentalists. With a career spanning seven studio albums and a slew of honours including Port Fairy Folk Festival's 2023 Artist of the Year and the Woodford Folk Festival 'Emerging Legend of Australian Song' in 2020, Stringer is a venerated guitarist and vocalist, her notoriously powerful live performances and melodically rich, story-based songs earning her a unique place among the most important Australian songwriters of the modern era. In 2025, Stringer released her seventh studio album The Second High, produced by Grammy nominated/Ivor Novello Award winning producer/engineer Beni Giles (Lianne La Havas,) at Iguana Studios in Brixton, London. Out through Remote Control Records/Dot Das Recordings and Proper Music Distribution in the UK, The Second High saw Stringer branch into a wider range of her musical influences, using jazz, soul and funk as a canvas on which to squarely centre songs which draw on themes of self-actualisation, social inequity and the dogged pursuit of truth and authenticity. The record debuted at # 3 Australian Album ARIA Charts and # 4 Vinyl Album ARIA Charts, earned her four star reviews from The Guardian and The Big Issue and an APRA Song of the Year shortlist for Coming Home and AIR Award Nomination. Liz Stringer’s sixth studio album, First Time Really Feeling, was recorded at Toronto’s Union Sound Company, produced and engineered by Chris Stringer (Timber Timbre). Released in April 2021 through Courtney Barnett's Milk! Records, the album debuted at #14 on the ARIA Charts in Australia, and earned the 2022 AIR Award for Best Blues and Roots Album and a place on the shortlist for APRA's Song of the Year 2022 (Dangerous). Stringer counts seminal artists such as Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Midnight Oil (with whom she toured the world as backing vocalist and occasional instrumentalist between 2020 and 2022) as fans, the late great Rob Hirst (Midnight Oil) describing her musicality as 'a total joy'. Beloved equally for her rock stylings, knee-buckling ballads and a world-class lyrical and story-telling prowess that sees her write affectingly from a staggering range of perspectives, Liz Stringer is carving a fiercely autonomous creative path while maintaining a deep sense of connection with her devoted and ever-growing audience.