THE MOST BOUNTIFUL HARVEST
Before she even released 2014’s deservedly acclaimed There There, Megan Washington was earnestly chipping away on what would become the multi-hyphenate Brisbanite’s third studio album, Batflowers. But it wasn’t an easy project for her to conjure up – not the least of which because it came to life amidst a great time of personal (and professional) evolution for Washington.
“It’s been a bit of a Rorschach test for me,” she admits to us in call; “I thought this album was a few different things before I realised it was a Batflower.”
So how did this record shapeshift from what you initially thought it would be into what we hear today?
Well, that it took six years is probably testament to the fact that it’s, then it was and there was all this other crazy bullshit, and then… I don’t know, I just never really accepted those versions of the album; I didn’t love them. They didn’t feel real after a while, or they didn’t fit the form I was trying to shape for it. What I was trying to find was a little more unconscious and sort of harder to put my finger on.
