Contemporary pop music is dark. The Weeknd allegorised cocaine in his nu-disco hit Can’t Feel My Face. The mysterious Brisbane singer/songwriter Airling, aka Hannah Shepherd, too, has captivated listeners with her shadowy, subliminal electro-soul.
“I feel like people respond to what’s authentic – or I do at least – and this world is not always happiness and romance and lust,” Shepherd says. “It…
