Licorice has long been sought out and snaffled for its touted benefits, which range from digestion to respiratory health and skin conditions. It’s handy, too, in the creation of music.

Hatchie’s third studio album Liquorice, which drops today (Nov. 7) through a global arrangement with Secretly Canadian, was created on the stuff, both the sticky snacks and the tea.

“I was introduced to licorice lollies at a young age because it’s my mum’s favorite, so my taste for it was already there,” Hatchie tells Billboard.

A bag of licorice, the top-shelf gear produced Darrell Lea, was close by when Hatchie caught up with Billboard at Summa House, an airy club in Fortitude Valley, the entertainment precinct of her hometown, Brisbane.

Licorice tea, she explains, “is really soothing for the vocal cor

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