With over 100 million streams, a Platinum, and multiple Gold singles, Jack River is a force to be reckoned with. Her debut album Sugar Mountain earned 3 x ARIA Award nominations, including Breakthrough Artist of the Year, Best Pop Release and Engineer of the Year, an AIR nomination for Best Independent Pop Album, and saw Holly nominated for Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year at the APRA Awards.
Her latest record Endless Summer sounds like a beach holiday while the world burns. Ten perfect pop songs that shimmer like melting highways and drip like strawberry icecream. It’s not that Holly Rankin is being flip. This is an album intended to be an oasis – something to retreat to amid the apocalyptic horrors of the modern world.
Jack River has not only proved herself as a powerhouse musician in recent years, but as a voice for change. She is a writer, entrepreneur and promoter, starting the annual Grow Your Own Festival in her hometown of Forster–promoting local and sustainable culture–and in 2017 co-founding Electric Lady, a movement that has her curating allwomen stages and festivals as well as creating opportunities for female acts that previously didn’t exist. Her advocacy for local music kicked off a viral campaign resulting in Our Soundtrack Our Stories, an open invitation from our country’s music community to the rest of the country to discover, champion, share, and consume more local music.