A BIT ABOUT
SWEET TALK

There’s something about Sweet Talk that doesn’t ask for your attention so much as demand it. Six musicians from Melbourne, carrying the swagger of Southern rock and the storytelling heart of Americana, but bent through their own lens, one that lets the red dust and late-night grit of Australia seep into every note. They don’t imitate; they translate. And in that translation, they’ve found a voice entirely their own.

That voice is all over Switch On, their debut album. Produced by Robert Ellis and mixed by Grammy-winner Trina Shoemaker, it landed in 2025 and refused to leave the ARIA Country Album Top 20 for more than eight weeks. Long before that, the single Warm Love cut a path of its own, earning an APRA Award nomination and marking Sweet Talk as more than another band on the rise. A national tour with Alabama’s wildfire Red Clay Strays proved it - night after night, crowds walked in curious and left converted. BIGSOUND 2025 is next, the kind of stage that doesn’t so much introduce Sweet Talk as confirm what the rest of the country already knows.

The road here has been relentless: Byron Bay Bluesfest, Tamworth, Port Fairy, Queenscliff, Gympie, Groundwater, Out On The Weekend. Pubs with sticky floors, backyards that smelled of smoke, festival stages that shook with thousands singing back. At every stop, Sweet Talk sharpened the thing that’s hardest to fake: connection.

“Sweet Talk was an absolute stand out at the two festivals in the last year where I caught them, Tamworth and Bluesfest,” admits The Whitlams frontman, Tim Freedman. “It was pure musical lift off with charisma and earthy grunt.”

Call it Americana, call it Southern rock, call it whatever you want. Sweet Talk are taking those traditions and bending them into something that feels both familiar and new - songs that know where they come from, but more importantly, know exactly where they’re going.