alt folk

Loene Carmen may well be Australia’s queen of underground rock’n’roll. A bona fide original, a songwriter extraordinaire and a true sonic explorer, equally at ease with ramshackle rock’n’roll, lo fi late night country blues, broken bedroom funk, slinky lounge and old fashioned Muscle Shoals soul as proven by her array of musical projects . Don Walker eloquently described her as “like Marilyn Monroe singing the songs of Bob Dylan or Lou Reed in a Vegas casino...except Loene writes her own...”.