Tip! *100 copies limited edition* Badskin is Melbourne-based guitarist and composer Carla Oliver. Where Was I is her debut album and contribution to Australian ambient and experimental music. Her new album is expected to be released early next year. Comprised of guitar loops and field recordings taken in Northern Queensland’s Paluma Ranges, Where Was I (Part 1) is the first taste of Oliver’s debut solo LP. There’s something unsettling yet comforting for those familiar with rural Australia in the amount of tension built through wide open spaces.

Self-defined as concave mess-room romantica, Where Was I uses noise and frozen signals to warp between reflection and presence. In her use of guitar loops, improvisation, live samples, and elements of rock music, her pieces often carry with them a cold romanticism.