After taking quite a break, the Australian popstar finally returns to the music scene with new songs that hop on 2019’s pop trend of talking about depression and anxiety. ‘modern anxiety’ takes aim at life in 2019 where people suffer existential crisis while seeking shelter from a wild night out: “Last night I was handsome, drunk and young / Today I don’t know who I’m trying to be,” Salvat sings in the opening lines.

Accompanying the release of ‘modern anxiety’, ‘alone’ is also another first taste of new music from the ‘Open Season’ hitmaker. Salvat talks about the song with DORK,

“Life had been getting scarier the more years that flew by. Decisions, doubts etc. I turned 28 and felt this kind of desperation to experience everything youth had to offer before it ran out (naive).

“I launched myself into this project a little too intensely. I felt like I’d become that friend, that guy on the date, that person in the background of other people’s lives who was just always ‘a bit too much’.

“This led to a whole bunch of mental horrors in my alone moments. Thankfully It was phase and it inspired ‘alone’.”

In addition to the release of two new songs, Salvat drops a new video for ‘modern anxiety’. The video features an inventive editing of video clips of popular social media, such as TikTok and Instagram. Check out the new video of ‘modern anxiety’ below, and both ‘modern anxiety’ and ‘alone’ are available on every streaming service now.