Castlemaine-via-Melbourne musician Louise Terry has been traversing the vast electro and experimental art-pop expanse long before the inception of her near-namesake solo moniker Louise Terra began. Known for her involvement with such Melbourne indie outfits as Sugar Fed Leopards, Sawtooth and Flying Scribble, Louise Terra has trickled out a string of singles and multimedia collaborations to her name since 2016, most notably with film-maker Rachel Feery in the production of a virtual-reality music video for her single, ‘Nature Calling’ in 2019. Now, the ever-evolving songwriter and producer delivers her anticipated debut EP, Follow the Moon Into the Ocean and reveals a third and final tease from the collection with her new single and accompanying video, ‘Yuu’.

‘Yuu’ rounds out a trio of singles lifted from Terra’s EP, following in the wake of previous tracks ‘Nature Calling’ and ‘J.B’. Upbeat and playful, ‘Yuu’ exemplifies Louise Terra’s keen ear for bent sonic textures, lush swirling vocals and intricate rhythms, taking cues from left-field electronica and dream pop, gravitating towards the personal and transcendental. Directed, shot and edited by local filmmaker Jeannie Brown, the accompanying video that will also land next week pays homage to surrealist and experimental abstract cinema, following Louise through milky bathtubs, fields of windswept grass, and pitch-black forests clad in stunning costuming by Alice Edgeley. The result opens up a whole new world of wonder to escape to when listening to the subdued tones of ‘Yuu’.

“The making of Yuu was a labour of love. Louise and I realised early on we both possessed a healthy enthusiasm for surrealistic visual and temporal distortions in art. This provided a stepping stone for what became a series of playful experimentations both on set and within the editing process. Not all experiments made the final cut but all were invaluable collaborative, joyous discoveries in their own right. The lengthy delays in scheduling provided a means for ideas to mature and unfold of their own accord.” – Jeannie Brown

From choir-girl beginnings, to obsessively listening to The Pixies, through to studying a theatre degree only to graduate and start fronting her own indie bands, Louise Terra has feasted on a steady diet of experimental pop and electronic music since her musical beginnings in the late Nineties. Steeped in a rich set of influences, such as Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Enigma and Susumu Yakota, the sounds on her upcoming EP Follow the Moon Into the Ocean present a shimmering meeting place between meditative and danceable. Drawing on her dreams, psyche and memories, the songs on the EP are self-reflective though somewhat mercurial.