Perth-born, Nashville-based alt-pop artist Felicity has just unveiled her sophomore EP, 4PM in The Morning.

Co-written with collaborators Austin Luther, Asia Whiteacre, Dan Pellarin, and Johnny Gates, this 5-track EP delves into themes of mental health and self-perception with unflinching honesty. Throughout the EP, the Australian artist showcases her powerful vocals, soaring melodies, and exceptional production.

Released via East Music Row Records, 4PM in The Morning is an unmissable project that's now available on all major streaming platforms.

Hi Felicity, how are you? What's your story?

Hey there! I’m doing pretty well, thanks for having me! I’m a Perth, Australia born indie-pop artist based in Nashville. I moved here about three years ago and have been finding myself and my sound since then.

You've just released your sophomore EP 4PM in the Morning - how does it feel like to release this project?

It feels like I’m releasing a body of work that truly reflects who I am and where I’m at in my life currently. I love the production choices Austin (Luther) and I made in combining live instruments with certain synths/ sounds. Each song comes from a deeply personal experience. It’s freeing.

When did you start working on 4PM in the Morning? Could you describe the songwriting/production process behind this EP? Who helped you create it?

The first song we (me, Austin Luther, Asia Whiteacre, Johnny Gates) wrote for the EP was “Half Sad”. I had the title for a while as it represents how I feel sometimes. When we were deciding which songs to put on this EP “Half Sad” really set the tone sonicslly and conceptually.

What's the story behind each song?

Bad Waste of Good Oxygen - I wrote this one after my (ex) team dropped me unexpectedly. Processing my emotions one by one, I started with anger and wrote Bad Waste of Good Oxygen as a result. It’s a little more bitter than I’d like to come across now but in the moment all I saw was suffocating (pun intended) shades of red. Bringing those feelings into the studio, Austin (Luther, Producer) and I wrote this one over two days. On day one it was a short, breathy, angry pop song. We liked it but the throttling emotion and depth were missing. On the second day Austin went nuts and changed the rhythm at the end of the song, creating the outro. It was epic. I was in the mood for some big vocals that day too so I ad libbed following Austin’s instrumentation and that was that.

I’ll Have What He’s Having - Asia (Whiteacre, songwriter), Dan (Pallarin, producer) and I had a hell of a good time writing this song. Dan is such a talented guy and everything he was playing on piano sparked a hundred fun pop melodies. Quickly the song started to take shape. We wrote it to be a love song on the surface but beneath that it’s more about the feeling of being jealous of those who came with a healthier, kinder self image than I seem to have. The main chorus lyric is “I’ll have what he’s having, what’s it like to be nice to yourself? I’m just mean, dammit” and that’s a good synopsis for me as a person but also the song as a whole.

Half Sad - This was the first song we (Asia Whiteacre, Johnny Gates, Austin Luther, me) wrote for the EP and it really set the tone for the work as a whole. The elements of string pads and synths accompanying the live alt-pop production I know and love was an exciting discovery. Listening to Half Sad after we wrote it made me want to get in my car, roll the windows down and drive forever with it playing in the background. I strived to permeate that feeling all throughout the EP.

Denver Airport - Johnny (Gates, writer), Austin (Luther, producer), and I wrote this one after I’d just traveled back from Denver, a city I called home my senior year of high school and where some of my family still lives - point being parts of my heart definitely rest there. I’ve been through the airport enough times to know about all its style quirks and conspiracies so when I got back to the studio in Nashville we started writing the first lyrics almost as a joke. Funny thing is, it might be my favorite song I’ve written.

I decided to write it about the one and only boy that broke my heart in Colorado, I was seventeen and thought I’d never find anyone like him ever again… The drama was so real (lol) and I needed the sonics to match. The strings, lamenting guitar riff, bold live drums, and stacked vocals are all about the dramatics.

Carnivorous Butterflies - One of my favorite writes ever. We (Asia Whiteacre, Johnny Gates, Austin Luther, me) wrote the whole thing outside at Shelby Park in East Nashville right on the water. The birds were chirping, the air was crisp, two guitars, four brains, what better time to write about flesh eating butterflies? Joking - the song’s actually about that feeling in your gut when you have a big old crush on someone and you start to feel insane all the while everyone else is keeping their composure. We juxtaposed the dramatic lyrics with light, acoustic leaning production - Austin even put bird noises in there! yay!

What did you feel when recording "Denver Airport"?

I had just flown back from Colorado the night before and walked right into the studio the next day with Johnny Gates and Austin Luther. The song very quickly wrote itself. My first proper heartbreak happened while I was spending my senior year of high school in Colorado so the song is shaped around that experience and how I felt at the time.

Any favorite memories from the making of this EP?

We (me, Austin Luther, Asia Whiteacre, Johnny Gates) wrote “Carnivorous Butterflies” outside in the late, cool Spring in Shelby park in Nashville. We could hear the river and the birds. A truly magical day with a song I hold near to my heart as a result.

What message do you want to deliver through this project? What do you want people to feel when listening to it?

I wrote the EP about a few different lonely emotions that I know a lot of us feel. “Half Sad’ and “I’ll Have What He’s Having” exploring themes around poor mental health/ self perception. I just want it to be something that makes people feel less alone. Something they want to turn up in their car and shout all the lyrics to.

What can you tell us about the artwork?

Naming the EP “4PM in the Morning” painted pictures in my mind of sunset/ light early blue skies, emotional confusion and jetlag that I’m portraying throughout the record. What better to portray that than an airplane itself? I collaborated with Hannah Grayhall on all the artwork for the EP. We shot everything in one day over a few locations, one of those locations was a storage unit Hannah found that had basically a chunk of a decommissioned Delta airplane in it (seems totally legit). I decorated it in faux foliage to give it an overgrown/ abandoned look as I thought the plane itself looked a bit soulless. It came out better than I could’ve imagined - Hannah is a wizard.

What biggest lessons have you learned since the beginning of your career?

Prioritize your health and happiness. Surround yourself with people you trust and be the hardest working person in the room.

What do you want to achieve as an artist?

I just want to be able to make music I like and tour the world with it forever. Simple. Easy… Right?

In your opinion, what would make the world a BETTER place?

Planet wide ego death and for all of us to put ourselves properly in each other’s shoes.

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