St. South Shares Stirring New EP “Big Sads”; Releases Lyric Video For Yearning Single “A Good Year”

Today, the multi-talented WA-born, now Sydney-based singer-songwriter St. South (she/they) is proud to share her stirring and emotive new EP, BIG SADS. Across its five-track journey, St. South explores and shares the deepest parts of her heart, sharing grief, love, hope, and healing in all its various dimensions, and capturing personal vulnerabilities – as if read straight from her diary – and translating them into beautiful, poignant moments of deep connection. A small project about some very big feelings, BIG SADS is a peek of sunlight through the clouds.  

“BIG SADS is about a lot of things, but mostly it’s about feeling some big feelings. Love, grief, depression, anxiety, heartache, and heart-healing. I’m learning that the pain that comes from losing someone is a testament to how much you love them,” St. South says.

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Following the release of her debut full-length album, 2020’s Get Well Soon, BIG SADS finds St. South at a significant personal crossroads. After her father passed away in September 2020, the devastation nearly led to creative paralysis. Writing no longer satisfied – she was feeling too much at once.  

Six months later, she sat down to write in her home studio. The result, BIG SADS, is a delicately produced collection of alt-indie-pop tracks that mine the infinite shades of loss, love, grief, surviving, and – ultimately – hope for better days.

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“When my dad died the world was still in lockdown, and I had this hopeful thought that I would spend the next year at my piano, processing the grief in a productive way. When in reality, grief turned into depression, leaving me feeling stuck and incapable of even basic self-care. The thought of writing about grief felt far too overwhelming when I was living and breathing it every day, and sitting at my piano started to give me so much anxiety. That’s why this EP is so special to me; because of how impossible it felt to start, let alone finish. When I hear it now, mixed and mastered, I can’t believe that it’s done. I can’t believe that I did that, amidst the biggest sads of my life.”  

From liberating single “Didn’t Need You”, to the haunting reflection of “Better Days”, the EP’s healing title track, the mid-tempo, R&B-styled “So Many Places” and the atmospheric, yearning of “A Good Year”, BIG SADS is as much a celebration of life as it is a reflection on grief. Though working through BIG SADS was like pushing a boulder up a hill, St. South has now reached the apex, and the view looks beautiful.  

Alongside BIG SADS, across 2024 St. South has also shared two stunning remixes of singles from the EP, with Irish singer-songwriter SOAK putting their evocative, cinematic spin on “Didn’t Need You”, and New Zealand duo BROODS reimagining title track “BIG SADS” with their signature woozy, blissed out production.