“This is the first Cocteau Twins track I heard or which I remember hearing, so it was definitely a big moment and it kind of stopped me in my tracks. It was on someone else’s Spotify playlist which I was listening to and I just couldn’t believe I’d never listened to them before and hadn’t heard of them before and it opened up that kind of music to me.

“’Lorelei’ is the most significant memory I have of hearing Cocteau Twins and I always go back to it. I don’t know about any direct influences for my music but it definitely has influenced my music, particularly the music I’ve got coming out. A lot of the music I’m working on at the moment is less pop than my EP.

“I love that the chords are pretty simple changes that get added to along the way. The more I listen to it the more little things I hear that I’d never noticed before. I just think it’s an amazing song - the writing, the production and the performance, it’s all perfect and it makes you feel something straight away.”

“I’d never really listened to The Go-Betweens much before last year, which is a shock to lots of people because I’m from Brisbane, they’re from Brisbane and they’re like the Brisbane band that everyone knows from the 80s’. I really got into them last year when I was actually nominated for a fellowship, which was The Grant McLennan Fellowship and Grant McLennan wrote this song. I delved really deep into his writing and this is another song that I was instantly obsessed with and I listened to over and over and over again.

“I think again, especially with the lyrics, they’re so heartfelt and they really remind me of older music I listened to when I was younger, like Todd Rundgren and Carole King. There’s these beautiful, tender lyrics about regret and love and desperation and just aching for someone, wishing and hoping and praying that someone will forgive you for something that you’ve done.

“It’s another song that’s really beautiful and one that maybe I can’t relate to personally, but the lyrics just really stuck out to me. I covered it and it was a really nice song to play and I really want to cover again, the whole band knew their back catalogue. ‘Apology Accepted’ is definitely my favourite Go-Betweens song, it really made me explore their music a lot more and really understand Grant as a writer.”

“I only discovered this song six months ago and I thought it was an old song when I heard it. I saw it on this Instagram account that posts vintage Cure and shoegaze band T-shirts. They sometimes post these old videos and when they posted the video for this I thought it was an 80s’ song.

“I looked it up when I saw the video and I thought ‘this is so cool, how have I not heard of this?’ It’s exactly what I’m into, it’s like a perfect song to me. I think the pre-chorus melody is my favourite part but it’s everything about it, the production, the lyrics, the vocals and all the little sounds on it, like the bells. Then I realised it only came out in 2015 which was just a huge shock, because it perfectly captures all of the different aspects of the 80s’ music that I’m into. I think the production is the main thing that sticks out, it doesn’t even seem real, her vocals especially.

“Everything Tamaryn does sounds really cool and I know she works with the same producer, Jorge Elbrecht, I think they’re a perfect team and I really look up to them and the music they make together. ‘Cranekiss’ is definitely a song I would like to play around with.”

“Emotion is one of my favourite albums of the last couple of years and I can’t believe that ‘When I Needed You’ wasn’t a single, I think it’s the best song on the album.

“She worked with Ariel Rechtshaid on this song and everything he touches turns to gold, they’re the perfect combo for me. I listed to the Song Exploder podcast episode where this song was on an episode, it was really nice and there were so many little elements to it that I didn’t notice before I listened to it. There’s this moment where they keep in her laughter at the back of the song and you can barely even hear it, but it makes a difference when you know it’s there.

“‘When I Needed You’ is just this huge, massive pop song. I love the synths and the slap bass that pops out now and then. I think it’s really smart pop music, there are so many elements to it and there’s something new every time you listen to it. I don’t think there’s any kind of shame in liking that kind of pop music and I think it deserves more of a platform. Carly’s amazing and Ariel’s amazing, it’s just perfect.”

“The Sundays are one of my favourite bands. This song was a really big inspiration for my song ‘Try’ which was my first single, so it’s really important that I mention it.

"This is probably the only one I would remember leaving out. ‘Here’s Where The Story Ends’ made me realise that you can have super-pop vocals and all of these elements that could kind of be really not cool, like acoustic guitar, but they can be cool when they’re put together in the right way and when they’re produced in the right way.

“When I found this song it was like I was looking at a treasure box and it made me realise that you can have all of these pop elements but you can still make it sound really cool. I really love all the sad, melancholy lyrics like ‘the souvenir of a terrible year’, but then there’s these pop, summery sounds. So it’s a really happy sounding song, but you realise there’s all these layers to it and its very multifaceted. It’s not a simple, one-dimensional song. It’s probably one of my favourite songs ever and it’s a really big inspiration to me as a writer.”

The Sugar & Spice EP is out now via Heavenly Recordings