Details: The last few years for Jess Holt, the Sydney-based artist better known as total tommy, have been the kind where everything turns on it's head and you come out of the other side a near-unrecognisable person. Even when the change is for the better, at some point you have to take stock of the bruises you've accumulated and the ones you've left on others too. Out of this comes total tommy's debut album, a collection of scuzzy bedroom-rock anthems appropriately titled bruises. There are a lot of different sides of total tommy on display across bruises: a romantic, a hedonist, a lost soul, a wise friend, an asshole, a sweetheart. What ties it all together is a newfound confidence; a sense of contentment and belief in exactly who she is, the kind that only comes from seeing what's left after everything's uprooted.
