Everyone goes through a crisis now and then. For Hannah Joy, the singer of Sydney indie band Middle Kids, it came in the depths of lockdown. She was a new mum and, locked away from the world, she began questioning, well, everything.
“The kind of artist that I am is that I go out and have experiences with people in the world, and then I come back and reflect,” she says. “It’s kind of cyclical in that way, and not having any energy or input coming in, I found that very difficult – and when I looked inside, I was like, ‘I don’t want to do that, actually.’
“I was in a stalemate with myself for a while, having to relearn how to be creative while being a mum because…
