Street Chant's Emily Littler and Billie Rogers break down their long-awaited second album.
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In a revealing essay penned for The Pantograph Punch last September, Street Chant's Emily Littler documented the litany of difficulties she faced while trying to complete the band's much delayed second LP: "Writers' block, poor band dynamics, substance abuse problems... you name it."
After a series of false starts, Street Chant have delivered the album, the follow-up to 2010's Means. Hauora sees Littler wrestle with the reality of life back on home turf after time spent on the road.
"I lost my mind a bit making it," Littler admits. "I was living in the house which is on the cover and I recorded it all there. There was rats running through the walls of that house, and I felt like there was rats running through the walls of my brain."
Emily and bandmate Billie Rogers talk Sam Wicks through Hauora's laboured delivery – first though, they check in with 3News weather presenter and friend, Kanoa Lloyd, about the pronunciation.