If you’ve got tickets for Amy Shark’s sold out shows around Australia, make sure you arrive for the support act. Melbourne musician Alexander Biggs has given me goosebumps with his beautiful new single “Dog Boy.” A song penned in a blanket fort in a ground floor apartment in inner-city Melbourne, Alexander says the song is about realising he hadn’t been taking care of himself or loving himself enough and that he needed to do better.
“It’s an old riff from a phone demo that I eventually put together in the fort, writing the lyrics in one sitting because a good song is a finished one,” he said. “The song builds into an explosion of mess and harmony and melody, and I made it that way searching for catharsis, which I hope listeners can feel, and that I feel when I play it.”
“Dog Boy” comes from Alexander’s new EP Whatever Helps You Sleep, which drops tomorrow.