Little May

Little May surfaced from Sydney during the early and middle years of the 2010s with their atmospheric and introspective take on indie rock. The trio shifted away from their initial acoustic focus, rich in harmonies, toward a more abrasive style dominated by electric instruments while preserving the reflective quality first heard on their major-label debut album For the Company from 2015.

Liz Drummond, Hannah Field, and Annie Hamilton established the band with an emphasis on layered three-part harmonies; the three self-taught players had all gone to the same secondary school. By the next year they had begun appearing at music festivals and filling venues for their own concerts around Sydney, which led to the release of a self-titled EP in 2014. Toward the end of that same year they inked deals with Capitol and Dew Process in Australia, and the latter put out For the Company, their debut long-player, during October 2015. Aaron Dessner from the National helped produce the record, which incorporated electronic elements and entered the Australian Top 40. Once the supporting tour wrapped up, Hamilton departed the lineup and later put out her first solo single in 2018.

Drummond and Field retained traces of folk and acoustic instrumentation on the next album, Blame My Body, yet leaned further into the sharper sonic palette first explored on For the Company. Dew Process/Universal released that follow-up in 2019.