by the time this love ends

final album out september 5th

By The Time This Love Ends (2025)

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Hailing from Albury, NSW and based in Melbourne, The Northern Folk are a unique collective of eleven songsmiths and instrumentalists, wielding a brand of tightly woven alt-folk magnified by massive arrangements and colourful indie-pop sensibilities. With two charismatic vocalists, they defy the odds to avoid overcrowding- in sound, if not on stage- creating songs that deftly move from poetic lyricism to horn-saturated eruptions.

With three records across ten years, The Northern Folk grew from their regional origins (seven members having attended the same high school) to become mainstays of the Australian folk scene. The band has worked with producers such as Callum Barter (British India, Courtney Barnett) and Adam Rhodes (The Cat Empire, Paul Kelly), culminating with their 2019 album ‘Watermark’, which reached #10 on the AIR Independent Albums Chart. Their live shows, with a “strength of performance second to none” (Beat Magazine), have led them to win St Kilda Festival’s New Music Stage Competition and play festivals such as Woodford Folk (back-to-back), The Hills Are Alive and many more; sell out Melbourne venues such as the Geddes Lane Ballroom and the Northcote Social Club; and support acts such as The East Pointers (CAN). Five members also have solo projects, and two members founded and directed the By The Banks independent music festival in Albury for three years running.

In 2020, members of the band began working on new music whilst isolating together through pandemic lockdowns, a project that exploded in scope to yield dozens of songs. After what became years of whittling, demoing, rehearsing and debating, The Northern Folk’s fourth album ‘By The Time This Love Ends’ emerged – the band’s most adventurous and expansive work to date, from the driving indie rock of ‘Keep On Coming Over’ and anthemic choruses of ‘Thank God‘, to the radiant slow-burn of ‘Jacarandas’. Self-recorded and produced for the first time, across fourteen tracks the album chronicles the emergence of love, the fear, joy and fury we feel sharing our lives, and the wounding regret of devotion let slip.

As The Northern Folk bring their time together as a band to a close, the launch of their final album represents a celebration of everything the band tried to achieve, a project that took much time, work, and love. ‘By The Time This Love Ends‘ is out September 5th.

Paul Dyason / Georgie Currie
Jayden Dunne / Edward Caunt / Miguel Hutton
Alex Cameron / Khayl Picard / Renn Picard / Grace Hornsby
William Carey / James Eggleston

Paul Dyason / Georgie Currie / Jayden Dunne / Edward Caunt / Miguel Hutton / Alex Cameron / Khayl Picard / Renn Picard / Grace Hornsby / William Carey / James Eggleston

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The band isn’t currently taking offers for shows, but for anything else you can get in touch with us here, or at info(at)thenorthernfolk.com.au

Top: Videography by Harrison Slattery, at By The Banks Music Festival 2018/2019.