Amid the darkness, Chet Faker wants you to surrender to joy
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In early 2020, just as the world plummeted into its permanent new cycle of sickness and lockdowns, Nick Murphy - the Melbourne indie musician better known as the ever-sensitive brooder Chet Faker - was awakening from his own darkness.
“2019 was actually one of the most stressful years in my life, not 2020,” he says from his cluttered studio in New York City’s SoHo, where he’s been based for eight years. So stressful that he’s still reticent to revisit it.