Angie McMahon shares 'Piano Salt' EP

Melbourne-born indie rock artist Angie McMahon has released select tracks from her 2019 debut, specifically reimagined for piano. In addition to hits like 'Slow Mover' and 'Pasta', Piano Salt includes covers of Bruce Springsteen's 'The River' (an early love for McMahon), and Lana Del Rey's 'Born To Die'.

“Piano is the first instrument I learnt and the one that made me first love singing," says McMahon. "My favourite piano song when I was young was k.d lang’s cover of 'Hallelujah.' So this EP feels like a return to my piano-cover-loving inner kid.

"It’s been a really nice creative opportunity to recreate the feeling of some bigger songs off my first record, give them a new life, and cover some of my favourite songs too. It gave me something to do when we went into quarantine. The creative process also helped me shed some fear around sounding too cheesy on the piano, or too sad - I realised that doesn’t matter so much because I just love to play and sing.”

The charming, often tongue-in-cheek delivery that was so endearing on Salt turns introspective and delicate on the stripped-back EP.

Stream Piano Salt below.