Heart That's Pounding

Australian-based Sally Seltmann is an award-winning songwriter and singer who formerly recorded and performed under the name New Buffalo. This is her third full-length album, Heart That's Pounding. Seltmann is best known for co-writing the hit song "1234" (performed by Feist), but known also by her acclaimed full-lengths as New Buffalo. The Last Beautiful Day (2005) featured performances from Beth Orton and the Dirty Three's Jim White, who played drums on three of the tracks. Seltmann's stunning second album, Somewhere, Anywhere (2007), was written and recorded on a century-old piano in a studio she set up inside a flower-flanked shed in her own backyard. The album features guest vocals from her husband Darren Seltmann (The Avalanches) and Kellie Sutherland (Architecture in Helsinki). Seltmann has made fans of such of artists as Jens Lekman, who she duets with on the track "Inside (The Corrections)."