Perth’s Angie Colman has dug deep and released a massive new single in ‘Who Are You After Me?’; a song that stops you in your tracks with beautiful insight, and heartbreak.

Over the last year Angie Colman has grown to be one of the most in demand voices in Perth. You can hear her on stage solo, with her band, and alongside other singers backing up their vocals with her impeccable harmonies. But it’s her charming and heartfelt songwriting that’s connected to so many people in a short time.

‘Who Are You After Me?’ has a gorgeous sway to it, thanks to the 3/4 timing (with a few tricky 5/4’s thrown in - if you know you know). Songs in this time signature are often romantic, or melancholic, and in this case, it’s a little from column A, and a little from column B. Angie’s vocals swoon and ache throughout the whole track, ranging from sweetness to being pushed to the borderline of cracking. The reverb-heavy slide guitar that weaves in and out gives a slight alt country feel, with the rest of the arrangement kept beautifully simple for most part, that is, until the big build up, where all the instrumentation have their say. It’s stunningly heartbreaking, yet introspective.

Speaking on how the track came together, Angie explains that it is a song written about heartbreak and friendship in difficult times.

“It’s about a very close and intimate friend of mine, who I treated poorly while we were friends in high school. I was in an emotionally and physically abusive relationship and was unable to be there for her through the shit she had going on in her life,” says Angie.

“I think and write about her a lot because she shaped so much of who I am today, and the song is a question to how I shaped her as well, and the lasting imprints people have on you, even years after you disconnect from them.”

Angie’s ability to capture and carry so much emotion in her voice and guitar work sets her above the growing songwriter scene in WA.

“I’d had this little riff that I’d been playing on guitar with these two weird chords, and I’d been playing it for about a year. Never had any words for it. Then I took a trip to Darwin with my sister, mum and grannie in September 2021, and I had this dream about my friend. I woke up really upset and just wrote some stuff down.”

Raised in the beautiful Perth Hills, Angie Colman grew up surrounded by music, writing songs since she could speak.

“One of my earliest memories of music was dad making me a pirated mixtape from pirate bay, and me listening to it on repeat on my walkman. I remember crying over Vanessa Carlton’s 1000 Miles as a 7 year old, as if I had felt love to any sort of degree that she had.”

“I’ve been singing as long as I can remember. We always had instruments around the house, and dad used to like to record some music so we made music together as a family when I was a kid.”

On the release of her new single the future for Angie is growing brighter. Recently teaming up with Mark Neal at Blue Grey Pink management (Noah Dillon) the Fremantle songwriter is excited to be preparing for a big year of music.

“Having people hear your music and really connect with you and who you are through your music is truly my favourite feeling in the world. I absolutely love performing.”

‘Who Are You After Me?’ is out now on all streaming platforms.