Steve Kilbey continues an extraordinary run of album releases with his latest effort, The Hall of Counterfeits. The album follows the sublime Sydney Rococo (2018) and Eleven Women (2020). In between he’s recorded new work with Gareth Koch, Martin Kennedy and Kate Ceberano and Sean Sennett.

Enjoying a new career peak, here – recording with his band The Winged Heels – Kilbey delivers a double album that stands steadfast alongside the best work of his career.

Here’s what Kilbey himself has to say about the project. 

“In 1990 I released an album called Remindlessness in which I attempted to take in everything I had ever been fascinated by and reconcile the whole damn lot with a weird and wild bunch of songs. 

“30 years on, armed with brilliant musicians (The Winged Heels), time has enabled me to give voice to those same preoccupations: past lives, Indian and Middle Eastern music, religion, ancient history, the Beatles and the many implications of their work.

“(It’s) a new sprawling double album, a labour of love. (It’s) the record I had to make before I shuffle off this mortal coil and begin again all over – some other time, some other place.

“(But), this record is the big one and even if I do get another 30 years down here it will be a hard one to ever top. 

“I have never been prouder of an achievement in my life.”

As for us? It’s a knock out. Five Gold Stars.