Mardi Lumsden is an award-winning independent synth-pop charmer from Brisbane, Australia. After releasing her dream-folk debut album, “Hiatus”, on the eve of Australia’s first COVID wave (March 2020), Mardi and co-writer/producer/husband Andrew Pennay spent the rest of 2020 writing happy music.
The artist’s second album “Slow Emotion”, was released in November 2023 and transverses disco, indie pop, and stargazer anthems written by Lumsden and Pennay.
Almost entirely self-sufficient, “Slow emotion” is self-released, self-produced, and recorded in their Brisbane home (a converted church) with tracks mixed by UK-based Charlie Holmes (Aurora, Ed Sheeran, Anna of the North) and mastered by Simon Francis (Charlie Puth, Julia Stone, Björk).
In true paddock-to-plate style, Mardi hand-poured a limited run of sunset vinyl herself, each one completely unique, thanks to Brisbane’s own Suitcase Records. Pre-order or buy “Slow Emotion” on vinyl through Jet Black Cat. Mardi has been releasing tracks from “Slow Emotion” for the past two years. The final song to drop is “Sermons and soda”. Bookmarked by a bittersweet lament, “Sermons and soda” is based on a line from Lord Byron’s poem “Don Juan”: “Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.”
Mardi explains: “Sermons and soda is about freeing yourself from someone with an addiction who always brings you down. Everyone has that friend who just didn’t stop partying. You might try to help them but at some point, you need to look after yourself and say ‘I wish you well, but I’ve done everything I can and now I’m going to look after myself’.”
For further information on the artist, visit
- Website mardilumsden.com
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