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Melbourne avant-folk musician Tilly Vickers Willis’ debut album Silver Halide Film is out now, along with a heartwarming video for focus track 'In My Body'. Pulling from elements of downtempo, triphop electronica, the new album is filled with moody organs, woozy guitars and ghosty falsettos. The release comes with the announcement of a headline show at The Curtin in Melbourne on June 6th to launch the album, with supports to be announced. TVW will also be celebrating the release of the album with a sold out record store performance at Feminista Vinyl this Saturday April 18th. Comprised of nine uniquely crafted songs spanning across genres of avant-folk, jazz, soul and ambient music, Silver Halide Film is about the depths of detachment and the sublimity of embodiment. There is the shiny, icy tang of trip-hop, shimmering pockets of art pop, and TVW’s’ smoky vocals which bind the whole record together. Produced by Dean Tuza (Acopia, Dirty Three, Eleanor Jawurlangali), the debut album includes a cover of TV On The Radio’s ‘Staring into the Sun’ as well as a track co-written with Morgan Wright of Acopia. The beauty of our surroundings is in the detail, and TVW’s songwriting inspires a sense of worldly curiosity in the listener that lingers long after the last notes of the album drift into the night air. The album toggles between two states—downtempo, dissociative detachment, and the almost mystical, but certainly magical, feeling of connection; not only with others but with one’s own body. “I’ve come to realise that the album is less about a journey to embodiment, and more an exploration of all the different points within those two extremes,” says TVW. “It’s not about the destination of joy, or a cathartic resolution, it’s more an interplay between these emotional states.” Focus track, ‘In My Body’, is an encompassing evocation of the freedom and rapture that comes from connecting with someone new who makes you feel totally at ease in your body. The song’s structure replicates this revelation, beginning with organs and acoustic guitar that unfurl into soaring arrangements of violins and drums, with TVW intoning “in my body” like a blissful mantra. Born out of TVW’s playful and openhearted creative relationship with filmmaker Jyo Miyaji, the track’s music video was shot on Super 8 and follows a love story from the perspective of two peoples’ shoes.