Uralla-based singer-songwriter Jhana Allan is releasing her sophomore album, titled ‘Fake Paradise’ in 2024. Themes of desire, addiction, and awareness of the artist’s own need for prioritising rest, forms the backdrop of this shape-shifting release. 

In 2022 Allan raised thousands of dollars from her community and fans via Kickstarter, and travelled to Nashville in January of 2023 to record with Baiman and multi Grammy-winning engineer Sean Sullivan, with a band of session musicians including guitar player Cy Winstanley (Brandy Clark), drummer Jon Epcar (Bono, Rihanna, Colbie Caillat), and Baiman’s band members; drummer Lauren Horbal and bass player Steve Haan. 

Drawing inspiration from musicians like The Weather Station, Sam Amidon, PJ Harvey, and Lucie Thorne, the album moves through folk, jazz, and rock soundscapes, retaining a throughline of Allan’s visceral and emotive writing and singing, and grounded by her layered vocal presence.   

“Fake Paradise” was mixed by Greg Griffith (Amy Ray, Vitapup), and the layers of beautiful fuzz and distortion play beautifully on Allan’s sometimes painful revelations of desire and self.  Allan is at times frustrated by her own inability to produce at the speed of modern life, but her struggles are also her superpower.  “I’m surrounded by fast and busy people”, she says.  “But I just don’t function that way.”  Somewhere in the midst of detangling and reflecting, Allan has created a beautiful and deeply relatable album, anointed with rare honesty and self awareness.