While the pandemic derailed tours and scrapped recording plans for many musicians, there’s one performer that actually found a freeing feeling in the midst of this past year – Australian pop wonder Lenka Kripac<\/a>, better known mononymously as the purveyor of hits like “The Show<\/a>” and “Everything at Once<\/a>.” Kripac is the matriarch of a busy Australian home; between crafting with her children and jamming on her ukelele, she somehow managed to release twin EPs Discover<\/a><\/em> (six original songs) and Recover<\/a><\/em> (six covers of classics ranging from Pat Benatar to Bob Dylan). She also put together a video for follow-up single \u201cIvory Tower\u201d via DIY means<\/a>. \u201cI shot the footage of myself on an iPhone in my five-year-old\u2019s bedroom. The effect of the lockdown on creating content with whatever resources you have at home was actually quite liberating,\u201d she tells Audiofemme<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She sent her DIY footage to her old pal Mitch Hertz<\/a> to achieve the lo-fi animation style she wanted. \u201cWe were going for an aesthetic somewhere between ’80s video art and Monty Python-like animations,” Lenka explains. “I had attempted to create a collage of the photocopied buildings myself first, but when I realized it was beyond me, I asked him to create that kind of thing for me. He went way further and made this whole revolving world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n