Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, singer/songwriter
Angus Stone first garnered the public's attention as one half of the internationally successful sibling folk duo
Angus & Julia Stone. With their distinctive vocal styles,
Julia's breathy and ethereal and
Angus' smoky and confident, the siblings released their debut album,
A Book Like This, to critical acclaim in 2007. After the release of 2010's
Down the Way, the pair began working on solo projects, with
Julia issuing
Memory Machine (2010) and
By the Horns (2012), and
Angus unveiling the feisty and rollicking
Smoking Gun under the pseudonym
Lady of the Sunshine before returning to more traditional country-folk-inflected territory with 2012's
Broken Brights, which was released under his birth name. A third
Angus & Julia Stone LP, produced by
Rick Rubin and titled simply
Angus & Julia Stone, arrived in 2014.
Angus then retreated to his farm house and put together an album with a more electric, '90s slacker rock sound than on prior projects, born of jamming with friends in his recording studio on the property. Using the pseudonym
Dope Lemon, he released
Honey Bones in the spring of 2016. ~ James Christopher Monger & Marcy Donelson