In his music, as in life, anything goes. For Eden Mulholland, sadness can be uplifting, desire be as impassive as a rock and memories be as suddenly vivid as the monitor lizards he occasionally sees on his runs up the hill behind his house. If all this sounds poetic then the cap fits. Even his take on pop music involves unexpected arrivals and departures, conventional and operatic voices, ripped apart rhythms and ethereal bridges, solidly resounding hooks and moody ascents. All of this is and more is captured in his forthcoming album ‘Hunted Haunted’ due out this September.
Hunted Haunted is Eden Mulholland’s follow up to his debut solo album ‘Feed The Beast’ which received critical acclaim with it’s 2012 release. Finding the perfect collaborators in Victor Van Vugt (Nick Cave, PJ Harvey) and recording engineer, Neil Baldock (Neil Finn, Sarah Blasko, Crowded House), Mulholland comments that working with a producer for the first time was exciting and challenging. I had to loosen the reins of my default songwriting settings, he says, and that could only happen if I recognised I had them in the first place. Victor’s input played a pivotal role in drawing out more groove in the songs, encouraging me to let the melody soar over the instrumentation rather than competing with other elements that were all striving for the lead.
Eden is no stranger to touring and his live performances are equal to the task of delivering the epic yet intimate qualities of his songs. A gifted multi-instrumentalist, digital artist and vocals freedom fighter, he is known for his generous and uninhibited delivery, whether performing solo or with his bands. Eden Mulholland will officially launch ‘Hunted Haunted’ on the opening night of New Zealand’s Going Global summit, on Thursday the 3rd of September.
