Charlie Threads On Gaining Closure

The Melbourne rapper Charlie Threads, part of the 90's RD collective, is a prime example of how life's setbacks can often steer you on the right path. "I was into skateboarding when I was younger, but after a massive broken ankle I was forced to try something else, so I wrote my first 16 in a wheelchair," explains Charlie Threads.

He's been working on his new album Palm Trees In Graveyards "in my bungalow, alone, smoking cigarettes in a salt lamp lit dojo," he laughs. "The project is supposed to feel like a day dream, almost drifting in and out of a consciousness. The graveyards represents my darker music (Incognito) and the palm trees represent a new found love for brighter instrumentation and subject matter that you will get a taste of in the tape," he explains. At the tail-end of his teen years, Threads says that he has undergone some serious growing as both a human and an artist. "Oh man, so many life lessons and journeys have been learned and taken throughout the making of the project — creatively, personally and mentally. What was most inspiring was transitioning between a rapper to an artist, and truly knowing what that meant." This can be seen in his favourite track Sink, 100% Sink, "purely because I turned all these negatives and demons I was going through in my life at that point and turned them into a song I could be proud of. Not only was I proud, but I gained closure on shit; that's music to me."