Tori Forsyth releases her new single ‘All We Are’. This comes after the single ‘Good Enough’ and announcing her highly anticipated third studio album, All We Have Is Who We Are, which is scheduled for release on Friday May 3rd. The singer-songwriter launched 2024 with a nomination for the 2024 Q Music Award for ‘Sometimes’, and the release of her previous single ‘Good Enough’, featuring backing vocals from mentor and friend Kasey Chambers.
Tori’s last six months have been crammed with touring highlights. She locked down a coveted tour slot with American superstar Jackson Dean, and performed to packed audiences at the Gympie Muster, BIGSOUND, Groundwater Country Music Festival, and more. The new album is already earning critical acclaim: lead single ‘Sometimes’ has been nominated for Vocal Collaboration of the Year at 2024 Toyota Golden Guitar Awards. It’s just the start of Tori’s best era yet.
Opener ‘All We Are’ cracks open the album in rollicking fashion, thrumming bass and drums lifting as Tori’s vocals soar up the register. As Tori says, it’s the track that sets the tone for the entire record. “It’s about peeling the layers apart to understand that bad things don’t make you bad and good things don’t make you good,” she says. “You just are. And it’s okay to accept all of the parts of yourself. And at the end of the day, that’s all we have to fall back on.”
The Sunshine Coast artist explains, “This song is an ode to the place that brought me back to the foundations of who I am. Belladonna Hollow. A magical healing place of self-discovery and wonder. A place that was the springboard of my ultimate mission of seeking joy and not wallowing in my own self-pity. That joy and happiness is available to all. The place where I learned that self-deprecation and pity is not a heroic gesture, it’s merely a self-fulfilling narcissistic prophecy that has been taught and spread across this generation. We deserve wonderful, lovely things, our neighbours do too and when we have true joy in our hearts this will spread and create joy in the world. I am imperfect in this, but the notion is the bookmark I’ll use in each chapter of my life.”
The new single is supported by an official video directed by Bradley Murnane who also shot the video for Tori’s previous singles ‘Sometimes (feat Shane Nicholson)’, ‘Made Your Bed’, and ‘Good Enough’. Filmed in Eudlo, Queensland, in the same location as the previous singles, Bradley shares,
‘All We Are’ is produced by Scott Horscroft (Charlie Collins, Brooke & Adam Eckersley) and recorded at The Grove Studios, NSW with her full band of Reece Baines (drums), Matthew Newton (guitars) and Zachary Miller (bass). Joining Tori in the studio are the Mak Brothers, Thom (guitar) and Andy (keys), as well as on pedal steel guitar, multi-instrumentalist Jy-Perry Banks.
Tori has been cultivating a steadily growing fanbase since the release of her evocative single ‘New Wall’ and her acclaimed EP Black Bird (2016). Tori’s highly anticipated 2018 debut album Dawn of the Dark was hailed as one of the standout country album releases of the year and her second album Provlépseis (2021) produced singles ‘Be Here’ and ‘Down Below’ which resonated with her loyal fans. Tori currently boasts over 15 million artist global streams on Spotify alone.
Refreshed and refocused, ‘All We Are’ is the second single Tori Forsyth has released this year. Returning to her unique alt-country sound that first launched her music career, 2024 has kicked off to a great start for the 4 x Golden Guitar Nominee.
There is a newfound freedom and lightness propelling Tori back to her rightful place at the forefront of Australian country music.