Australian singer-songwriter and music business entrepreneur Jen Cloher is following in the footsteps of greats like Angel Olsen, Kate Tempest, Toro Y Moi and more in the resistance series against Donald Trump.
Released in the US as part the Our First 100 Days campaign, Cloher’s new single ‘Kinda Biblical’ will raise funds for Climate Change, Women’s Rights and Immigration advocates in the US, all of whom are at risk under Donald Trump.
Recorded with her band, Courtney Barnett (wife and partner at Milk! Records), Bones Sloane and Jen Sholakis, ‘Kinda Biblical’ wouldn’t be a Cloher song if it wasn’t filled with glorious nuance.
Cloher said of the track: “The ‘I don’t wanna, I don’t think so’ lyrics are borrowed from Kim Gordon’s ‘Kool Thing’, a nod to her classic line ‘Are you gonna liberate us girls from male white corporate oppression?’ The reference to Bluebirds are of course Trump’s addiction to Twitter.”
Cloher said she recorded the track because it’s important to see world politics as a global issue:
“Australians will be affected by Trumps presidency,” she said. “More importantly we care about what our friends in the U.S are about to go through.
“‘Kinda Biblical’ is an examination of the Radical Christian Right and their influence on the Republican Party. It’s frightening when Church and State become one and the same.”
Our First 100 Days has so far raised more than US$85,000 for six important causes.
They are:
