Australian-based folk diviner Leah Senior silences audiences with vivid lyricism and a voice that soars with a disarmingly honest Sandy Denny-like clarity.

 

She effortlessly weaves together springtime baroque pop playfulness with a fragile blend of bedroom folk. Her fourth album The Music That I Make (2023, Poison City Records) reveals Leah at her most intimate, her songs a cycle of vulnerable meditations on what it means to create. The record transports listeners to her sandstone shack in Anglesea, where autumnal British folk meets rain-streaked AM radio.

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Leah’s earlier albums The Passing Scene, Pretty Faces and Summer’s On The Ground were released through Flightless Records, after a serendipitous late-night encounter with King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard led to her joining their independent label. She later toured the US and Canada with King Gizzard in 2022, performing at iconic venues including Red Rocks and Berkeley Theatre, and has since returned to North America for multiple headline and collaborative tours.

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Her captivating performances have seen her share the stage with Wilco, Jessica Pratt, Bedouine, Sylvie, and more, gracing festival stages such as Levitation, Desert Daze, Hopscotch Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival and Golden Plains.

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In 2024, Leah was named Poet in Residence for Radio National’s Poetry Month and remains a regular voice on ABC Radio. In 2025, she made international headlines as the first Australian artist to publicly remove her music from Spotify in protest of the platform’s corporate funding, sparking a wider conversation about artist independence and community-driven music ecosystems.

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“Senior’s soft psychedelia and pastoral folk recall the charm of Vashti Bunyan and the emotional resonance of Nick Drake.” — The Sydney Morning Herald