Sibling duo Angus & Julia Stone impress fans with their brand new album Snow

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Brother and sister duo Angus & Julia Stone are back with their fourth studio album Snow available Sept. 15.

Australian brother-sister duo Angus & Julia Stone are back with their latest album Snow set to be released on Sept. 15.

Snow is the duo's fourth studio album and contains 12 original new songs that were entirely written by the siblings. The album was also produced and mainly put together by the two in a cottage studio in New South Wales Australia.

The duo started working on this project in the way they had for previous music with their producer Rick Rubin, but eventually started writing their material with only the two of them.

“That was the first time that we actually started writing together, in the same room, and I guess we took a leaf from that chapter into this record. This time round though, every song on the record we wrote together,” Angus said.

According to a Nettwerk Music Group press release, the duo have had a successful year since they've been performing as a group since 2006 and has “unfolded with an almost magical magnetism that has galvanized the world”.

The band's albums have had multi-platinum sales and have won a number of ARIA and APRA wards in Europe and back home in Australia.

The duo have fans all over the world and have done a number of tours across Europe, the U.K and North America.

Their music has been featured on a number of TV shows including Suits, Revenge and Pretty Little Liars.

Since the duo have been on the music scene for a good number of years and their tunes are accessible all across the world through many means including streaming and have garnered over five million listeners, the release said.

Their latest single “Snow”, also the same name as the album, is already close to two million streams just on Spotify and will surely continue to rise in the coming days.

The duo has positive thoughts when talking about the album and its creation.

“It was quite magical because Angus and I have never spent that much time together, just the two of us,” Julia said. “There's always at least an engineer or tour manager but the last phase of writing and recording was just eight weeks of him and me and the quiet of the land. It was a beautiful time.”

The album itself is an eclectic blend of hauntingly, melodic beautiful songs that capture moments and different emotions.

With songs that work well either in an arena, mid-sized venue, club, or a small intimate concert setting the duo's voices blend well together and the instrumentation works beautifully.

The album in itself is a fantastic mix of sounds and lyrics that blends in well with today's general music, but also can be referenced to musical sounds from the past. It wouldn't hurt to say that on some of the album's songs including “Cellar Door”, “Oakwood” and “Sylvester Stallone” the band vaguely have a Fleetwood Mac Vibe and Julia almost having a Stevie Nicks sound to her voice.

The duo's voices blend well together and the album is a mix of upbeat songs, to slower pace, hypnotic and calming tunes that can be listened to on a relaxing night at home or at a bar with the lights deemed down with a cool, cozy atmosphere.

Snow is a unique album and something different on the market.

To promote and share Snow with audiences worldwide, the duo are heading out on an international tour and will make stops in Montreal on Nov. 14, Toronto on Nov. 15 and Vancouver on Nov. 28.

For more details on Angus & Julia Stone, tour dates and more, please visit angusandjuliastone.com.

Listen to Snow on Spotify