Leah Flanagan’s third studio album, Colour by Number, sparkles with pop gems, shimmering like beads of condensation against cold glass on a sultry Darwin evening. A follow up to Flanagan’s 2016 lauded sophomore album Saudades, this dreamy collection of deeply personal, narrative driven songs that lean back into the assuredness of Flanagan’s characteristically unhurried, deft vocal delivery

Produced by Sarah Belkner and recorded by Richard “Richie” Belkner at Free Energy Device Studios in Sydney, the record is an assured maiden outing into deeply personal terrain for Flanagan as an artist. She is speaking directly, for the first time through her songs, to long-formed thoughts on belonging, identity and self-knowing, to gentrification and change and to carving out her own place amidst the swirling convergence of her multi-faceted heritage. There is a maturity and a knowing in these songs that cannot be feigned. Colour by Number is a direct testament to Leah’s skill in synthesising her rich life experiences and continuing lessons learned with her deep connection to her art, set against Belkner’s playful and confident pop-informed choices. 

Colour By Number is out now through Flanagan’s Darwin based, Indigenous owned and operated label Small Change Records.