Alex The AstronautWhen we catch up, Alex Lynn (aka Alex The Astronaut) is fresh off a trip to Europe and just days out from the release of her latest EP, See You Soon.
"I'm excited to have it out," shares Lynn of her latest work. "I mean, I wrote the songs a little while ago. Some of them I wrote when I was about 18; two of them, Reflector and New York — oh, New York was a little bit later. And then the other two are really new. It's kind of interesting to have them together and to see how my style has changed."
Lynn's voice isn't the only one that appears on the EP. Tune into the second track, Reflector, and you'll be welcomed by the voice of Lynn's grandmother. "I think I wrote it when I was 18 or 19 or 20-ish and it's about thinking you would know everything by the time you turned that age. And then getting there and being like, 'Holy shit, I know nothing'," Lynn laughs. "I wanted to interview grandma to see if that's the experience she had, if she still feels that way or what. I guess we included the bits where she was talking about when she was younger."
This year has offered a mass of opportunities for Lynn, particularly in the form of a recommendation from Elton John during his Beats 1 radio show and through the huge success of her song Not Worth Hiding. "It's just crazy! I've had so much fun. I got to play a festival in Germany, which was just so cool, and it was really interesting playing Not Worth Hiding in Germany. And I played a show in London supporting Lisa Mitchell as well. The reaction is always the biggest for Not Worth Hiding out of all the songs I play.
"I think that because it's such a personal song, even if you don't know me as an artist, the audiences are kind of able to relate to it or something or they appreciate the honesty, I guess. They were so supportive in both the cities and I had people that... I had this one boy who was German who came up to me and was just so eloquent in how he spoke, and [was] just talking about how it was good that I wrote it and how, across the world, he heard the message and everything. And I was like, 'Oh, my god! That's madness!' It's really cool."
Lynn's starting her See You Soon EP tour this week, kicking off in Brisbane before wrapping all the way 'round to Perth. "I'm excited, yeah," she enthuses. "My favourite kind of thing at the moment is I get to pick supports to go on tour with me, like, I get to kind of help other artists. Because up to this point I've only done support tours. That was such a good experience for me and it's so good as a performer to go and play to an audience who maybe don't know you and connect with people like that. So I get to pick some artists to come out and hang out with me and that's really cool."
