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Emma Russack

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Emma Russack is an Australian singer and songwriter, who grew up in Narooma, New South Wales, where she graduated from high school in 2005.[1] She currently lives in Melbourne.[2]

In 2004, when she was 16, she won the contest Fresh Air of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for young talents with her song "Used To This".[3] By 2008, she was already known on YouTube, where she had posted eight covers,[4] as well as two songs of her own, playing the guitar.[5] For some time between 2007[6] and 2008,[7] she took on the artistic name Lola Flash, while being the singer of a band of the same name. The group members were Jake Phillips (bass), Alec Marshall (guitar), Paul Mc Lean (drums) and Kate Delahunty (violin).[8] The single "Psycho", published in 2009, is from that period.[9] She spent a year travelling around in South America.[2] In 2010, the EP Peasants was published, and in 2012 her first album, Sounds Of Our City, including ten songs, was released.[9] Articles about her have appeared in the German and Australian editions of Rolling Stone and in the Australian magazine Frankie.[10] She had her song "All My Dreaming" featured in the ending of The Walking Dead's Season 9 11th episode, "Bounty".

Discography

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Albums

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List of albums, with selected details
Title Details
Sounds of Our City
  • Released: February 2012
  • Label: Spunk (URA385)
  • Format: CD, digital
You Changed Me
  • Released: 2014
  • Label: Spunk (URA453)
  • Format: CD, LP, digital
In a New State
  • Released: 2016
  • Label: Spunk (URA494)
  • Format: CD, digital
Permanent Vacation
  • Released: 2017
  • Label: Spunk (URA513)
  • Format: CD, LP, digital
When It Ends
(with Lachlan Denton)
  • Released: 2018
  • Label: Osborne Again
  • Format: digital
Keep On Trying
(with Lachlan Denton)
  • Released: July 2018
  • Label: Osborne Again
  • Format: digital
Winter Blues
  • Released: July 2019
  • Label: Spunk (URA5561) / Osborne Again (OSB023)
  • Format: CD, LP, digital
Take The Reigns
(with Lachlan Denton)
  • Released: October 2019
  • Label: Spunk (URA5558) / Osborne Again (OSB024)
  • Format: LP, digital
Something Is Going to Change Tomorrow, Today.
What Will You Do? What Will You Say?

(with Lachlan Denton)
  • Released: October 2021
  • Label: Spunk (URA5831) /Osborne Again (OSB038)
  • Format: CD, digital
About The Girl
  • Released: August 2024
  • Label: Dinosaur City Records (DCR048)
  • Format: LP, digital

Extended plays

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List of EPs, with selected details
Title Details
Emma And Alec (as Emma And Alec)
  • Released: 2009
  • Label: Why Don't You Believe Me? (WDYBM001)
  • Format: CD, digital
Peasants
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: Spunk (URA317)
  • Format: CD, digital

Awards and nominations

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AIR Awards

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The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector.

Year Nominee / work Award Result Ref.
2025 About the Girl Best Independent Pop Album or EP Nominated [11]
Stephanie Jane Day for "Everything Is Big" Independent Music Video of the Year Nominated

EG Awards / Music Victoria Awards

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The EG Awards (known as Music Victoria Awards since 2013) are an annual awards night celebrating Victorian music. They commenced in 2006.

Year Nominee / work Award Result
2012[12][13] Emma Russack Best Female Nominated

References

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  1. ^ "Narooma's Emma Russack on RocKwiz". Naroomanewsonline.com. 26 July 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Interview of Emma Russack". Archived from the original on 29 April 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  3. ^ "Used to This by Emma Russack :: Fresh Air". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 3 March 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  4. ^ "Emma Russack". Emmarussack.blogspot.com.es.
  5. ^ She later cancelled her YouTube account, but the videos can still be seen on other people's accounts.
  6. ^ "Lola Flash - No Flag & What a Night - 21.11.07". YouTube.
  7. ^ "The home of Half a Cow Records: News". Archived from the original on 13 May 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  8. ^ "Cantante australiana trasciende gracias a internet". Blogperiodismo.wordpress.com. 26 May 2009.
  9. ^ a b "Emma Russack". Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  10. ^ "Songbird.me". Ww17.songbird.me. Archived from the original on 21 September 2019. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  11. ^ "The Nominees for the 2025 AIR Awards Are Here". The Note. 13 May 2025. Retrieved 17 May 2025.
  12. ^ "EG Awards 2012 Announce Nominations, Induct Weddings, Parties, Anything". Tone Deaf. 3 October 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  13. ^ "The Temper Trap, Oh Mercy Win EG Awards". noise11. 21 November 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
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