Win a Holly Throsby prize pack including CDs, concert tickets and posters

Like her first collection of songs, On Night, Holly made Under the Town on Saddleback Mountain on the NSW South Coast over the summer.

The songs on Under the Town are strong and clear, alive with crisp detail and carefully wrought melodies. Holly is a songwriter who selects her words with a poet's precision; and conjures her imagery with a painterly eye. The words are sparse and well chosen, but build rich little worlds. There's darkness here, and images in sharp focus: dim things in a pond, crows in a bed, a heart like an apple (red round and shot), kids in the dust. But there's also humour and playfulness in the instrumentation and the intricate arrangements: from toy piano ("The Shoulders and Bends") to chopsticks drumming on a window sill ("Making A Fire"), to beautiful string flourishes ("If We Go Easy"). These are songs by an artist in sure command of her delicate craft, an artistic leap forward from her highly praised debut.

Holly will perform an album tour in September. In the meanwhile, there's Under the Town.

MAJOR PRIZE

Win a Copy of her new album, Tour EP (not available in stores), Making a fire single (not available in stores), tour poster, T-shirt and a double pass to the show of your choice on Holly's national tour in September.

RUNNERS-UP

10 copies of Holly Throsby's latest release 'Under the Town'