Only singer-songwriter Meg Washington could make an examination of capitalism into a sublimely haunting ditty.

The multiple ARIA Award winner’s latest record, Gem , is a lilting, swirling album that sees her contemplating why she continues to make music and sing, even in turbulent times. In what Washington considers to be the heart of the album, the track Natural Beauty , she soaringly sings, “When everybody’s talking about superannuation, I’m singing in the garden, I’m trying to find my soul”.

“For me, that song is a reckoning and an interrogation between the realities of the world that we live in and yet choosing to sit at the piano and sing,” Washington says.

“Without art, without music, without dancing, without fun, without those things which make us feel, what are we doing

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