The music of the artists, composer, and producer Steve Balbi mines a kaleidoscope of life at the margins. Gritty yet sophisticated, coalescing melody, and sentimentality, Balbi bespeaks Bowie and Lennon in rhyme and verse, exploring the diversity, refinement, and rotten groove of Radiohead.
Balbi’s debut solo LP, Black Rainbow (2013), and its surreal reprise, Rainbow Black (2016), provided a point of departure for the chameleon’s enigmatic artistry. His most third solo LP – I Think I Know For Sure – taking him back to the present.
In August 2024, Balbi released his fourth solo LP – Breakdown - at the Sydney Opera House. Celestial but gritty, distorted but beautiful, and daunting but heavenly, Balbi bends genres on this new record. A sensual, impossibly romantic, evocative and inspirational yet melancholic and intoxicating.
The new track 'No Place We Can Go' ft. Ash Grunwald & Miranda Carey sees Balbi return to his indie rock roots, casting the tone of his forthcoming LP.
