It’s easy to forget that This Way North is a two-piece band. Drummer/vocalist Cat Leahy and guitarist/vocalist Leisha Jungalwalla create a uniquely full, expansive sound that translates effortlessly from the studio to the stage. Currently, of no fixed address, the country Victorian girls are enjoying life on the road, but one th [+]
It’s easy to forget that This Way North is a two-piece band. Drummer/vocalist Cat Leahy and guitarist/vocalist Leisha Jungalwalla create a uniquely full, expansive sound that translates effortlessly from the studio to the stage. Currently, of no fixed address, the country Victorian girls are enjoying life on the road, but one thing is evident their sound: their home is on the stage. Whether in a local dive bar or at an international festival, This Way North plays with more passion and energy than a 10-piece band, drumming up a contagious euphoria. Big, rhythmic, spacious and saturated with summer, they invite you to turn up the volume and let loose. .Make It Work is a clever, jaunty little pop song made appealing by the alluring effect of the double female voices of its two members, drawing you in with their sweetly intoned but strongly delivered harmonising vocals. This is the type of organic, real instruments based, striped down but rich sounding, inner city earth mother indie folk pop that was made big in the first half of the 1990's. In Melbourne it would be synonymous with the inner north such as Fitzroy and North Carlton, and a little bit of St. Kilda thrown in, in Brisbane Fortitude Valley and New Farm and in Sydney, Erskineville and Newtown. It's the arty, conscientious enclave of creatives anywhere you might care to name. The song itself is about finding a way to keep a relationship going though while difficult at times, the love at its core is worth keeping going. [...]
