Higher

"Higher" showcases Budjerah at his most expansive — the production opens up with lush, gospel-adjacent warmth, his voice climbing with it effortlessly. Where "Touch" is intimate and aching, "Higher" reaches outward, aspirational in its emotional architecture. There's a spiritual quality to it that draws on soul tradition without being derivative, filtered through his own cultural positioning and personal experience. He writes about elevation — emotional, relational, almost transcendent — with the conviction of someone who has felt exactly this and needs to describe it precisely. The arrangement swells strategically, building anticipation before releasing it in a chorus that earns its uplift. Australian soul has historically been underexported but deeply felt domestically, and Budjerah represents its current peak expression. This is music for long drives into open country, for those moments when something — love, possibility, plain morning light — makes you feel briefly but completely okay with being alive.