Peggy Frew – Dial Up

Peggy Frew is a best-selling, prizewinning novelist and member of legendary Naarm/Melbourne-based sadcore band, Art of Fighting. She has also at various times collaborated with Mick Turner, Mess Esque, Clare Bowditch, and Sainthill.

Dial-Up is Frew’s first solo album. It was produced and recorded in one week by Marty Brown (a long-term collaborator in Art of Fighting) at his Standalone Studios in Coburg. ‘The beautiful thing was how quickly and intuitively it all came together,’ says Brown. ‘We’d do one take or two, grab those moments and then build it up. Peggy played bass, she or I might play some guitar or piano, I’d put it through some crazy sound… The stories and the feelings suggested musical ideas without thinking very much at all.’