Effe Confirms Debut EP Solder, Releases “Lick The Flame”

Effe will release her debut EP Solder on 7 August via Artist House. The Naarm/Melbourne songwriter also shared the lead single, “Lick The Flame,” a track built around the sting of being led on. “I wrote it with Alex Craig (After) who has such an ear for that nostalgic, y2k Dido sound that I love, so he was the perfect collaborator,” she said.

The five-track EP was cut with Craig, Edward Quinn, and a close circle of friends that includes Cam Tonkin, Maia Efstathis, Lukas Frank, and Wilson Conn. Effe spent much of the sessions at the piano, letting the instrument’s physical mechanics bleed into the mixes. “You can hear the organic piano sounds in the songs, like the keys pressing and me pushing the sustain pedal with my foot, which is a cool textural element,” she explained. The tracklist runs: “See Through,” “Lick The Flame,” “Every Version Of You,” “Faceless Angel,” and “Tears Always Burn.”

Solder draws directly from Effe’s first experience falling in love, processed through fragments of reflection on earlier dating encounters that left her confused and crushed. That emotional directness threads through a sound shaped by years of self-taught Garageband production as a teenager and a formative film course in Brisbane. There, she connected with the city’s tight-knit trip-hop and alternative scene, building a live presence and meeting collaborators. After returning to Melbourne, she absorbed a broader set of futuristic sounds, filtering influences like Björk, Portishead and Lana Del Rey into her writing.

Solder is out 7 August on Artist House.