THE new moon symbolises a time to initiate new beginnings in astrology.

Moving to Coulson, near Boonah, late last year singer songwriter Clea Pratt recently married musician and collaborator Alistair Richardson and went to work on her second album in the studio Ali had been working on at the property for the past couple of years.

The first single from the album Listen Up was released in September and a new single has been released each month since January on a new moon, leading up to the album Idle Light released last month and a national tour being announced today.

“A New Moon symbolises renewal and starting again. So it was nice to have that beginning point of the new moon and then a new song,” Clea says.

“When we were writing and recording the album, something about the moon was very prominent about the process and becoming more connected to the moon and really feeling our smallness.

“I was going through my late ’20s, Ali was going through his own things, and we were coming to that realisation that this is all there is in this life and we are so small in that sense, which is also beautiful, and threatening, and very scary.

“It’s the transition from early adulthood to mid 20s where you are a lot more aware of your surroundings, you’ve gone through the ups and downs of entering your 20s and becoming an adult and what it means to move through this world. And then once you’ve consumed all that information, and you’ve gone through a bit of heartbreak and you’ve experienced also what you love to do, then, for me, I’d come to this point of actually then being able to look at my surroundings and in that, within those surroundings was the moon, the crazy pull and this immense power that is in the sky.

“A lot of the time we don’t really look up and I think just that constant reminder that we are so insignificant compared to this amazing thing that’s always there. That’s what the title is as well, Idle Light, a light that's always there, but it is up to the individual to see it or not. Everything is always okay if you make it okay. There is always a way out as long as you take that route.

“The album is about all those little journeys that you start to have. Having all these hopes and dreams of what you will do can help just be that guide but when that’s no longer available, and you just need to rely on yourself, you then turn to nature, because that’s essentially all we are. We’re just nature.”

Clea’s sophisticated indie pop has attracted attention since the release of her debut album Vermillion in 2018, winning Song of the Year at the Queensland Music Awards in 2019 for the catchy single Dreaming and earning her a plaque unveiled on Brunswick Street’s Walk of Fame in Fortitude Valley in Brisbane.

The success wasn’t instant, with her first single Polyester recorded when she was 18 and a lot of work building her following with an EP Fairweather Friends.

Clea launched Idle Light with an intimate album party at the farm at Coulsen last month and launches it nationally with a tour starting in southeast Queensland in September and heading to Melbourne and Sydney in October.

“It was really special because it was a full 360 moment. We performed on the deck where I wrote a lot of the songs,” she says.

“That is what I love doing, connecting all of the pieces, and then bringing people into that life. We played the album from start to finish and as we played the last song, the sun was setting. It was symbolic and beautiful, a very special afternoon.”

Clea plays at Sunshine Sounds Festival at Eumundi on September 2, Tom Atkin Hall at Tugan on September 9 and Brightside, Brisbane on October 6.