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“Penelope Austin could very well be Australia’s answer to Lana Del Rey, with a voice and song style that had me madly googling her from the car park” – MUSICFEEDS “…hype-worthy” – PILERATS “Definitely one to keep an eye out for.” – PROJECT U Penelope Austin was born in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales and moved to her spiritual home, New York City in 2006 with a guitar and a hundred and fifty dollars in her jeans. Austin wrote her first song at fifteen with a guitar stolen from her high school. It was the year her mother passed and the young singer went to America for the first time. Finding herself in the desolate and alien landscapes of Oklahoma, travel marked the years that followed and she continued to compose, her guitar rambling with her throughout the world and even backstage on tour with the Rolling Stones through South America. A true nomad at heart, this ethereal sense of Other begins with her voice. Delicate and raw, vulnerable and passionate, Austin’s vocal