![]() They also arrived in the midst of a hectic touring schedule, as Hiatus Kaiyote saw a spike in popularity after several of their tracks were sampled by hip-hop royalty including Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Beyoncé and Jay-Z. These losses came as Saalfield’s four-piece band were crafting new music for Mood Valiant, the follow-up to 2015’s acclaimed Choose Your Weapon. Sometimes the only thing that can really heal you is music.” It’s a blessing to have the arts as a vehicle to process it. ![]() “But loss is not a new thing to me I’m an orphan and I’ve experienced a lot of death in my life. I had lost a breast and then I lost my bird, who I went everywhere with for almost a decade,” she says. Speaking over a video call from her home in Melbourne, her shock of blond hair bursting through the darkness of the room, Saalfield stoically recounts how the global pandemic was just the latest development in several years of bad news: namely, a breast cancer diagnosis, mastectomy and the death of her beloved rescue bird, Charlie.
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