Jimblah’s Powerful New Track Is A Must-Listen For Every Australian
"I don't do this for attention, or just to get some mentions," he raps. "I do this for my culture. I do this for my spirit."
Jimblah is one of the most necessary and urgent voices in Australian music right now.
An acclaimed musician with two solo albums underneath his belt, Jimblah has spent his whole career speaking truth to power, changing the game and pushing the industry at large to do better. It’s no surprise then that his new single, ‘About These Demons’, is an incisive and intelligent work, full of the fire and fury that has become his trademark.
“What happened to my dreaming?” he asks, his voice melodic and thick. “Can anybody see it? They don’t wanna see it. They don’t understand.”
Later in the song, Jimblah calls out those who claim activists are only trying to change the world for the clout of it. “I don’t do this for attention, or just to get some mentions,” he raps. “I do this for my culture. I do this for my spirit.”
“What more can I possibly say, I’m exhausted,” Jimblah says of the track in a press release. “Running since I was 12, since I started noticing that the world was a very different place for me compared to the other kids. Running with a target on my back.
“What these songlines represent is, we as First People’s don’t want to see this happening, the difference is we aren’t able to just turn our backs on it. We don’t have that option. So we have to be active about confronting these demons, we have to activate in a way that is working towards this healing of Country. So many people claim they love this Country, but the truth is – they love to exploit this Country. If they really loved this Country, they would love us, and we would be side by side battling these demons together.
“We need every single person who stands on this sacred Country to be activated, not just on socials, but at the dinner table, at the march, at the workplace, on the stage, in the board rooms, at parliament — that’s what true reconciliation will look like –when we are actually working together on this healing and it’s not just on the First Peoples to rid this Country of its on-going genocide and our beautiful way of being.”
Listen to the song in full and watch the accompanying music video right here: