One of the most celebrated figureheads on the Australian music scene, Chet Faker returns today with the gorgeous heartbreak of ‘Far Side of the Moon’, the first taste of new music since 2023 single ‘Something Like This’. The new single is accompanied by the announcement that Chet Faker will headline a second date in London at HERE at Outernet on 24th October after the first date sold-old.
Over the course of three majestic minutes, Nick Murphy — the ARIA-winning songwriter, musician, and producer behind Chet Faker — crafts an utterly transportive spell, transforming his observations of all the disorientation and yearning of doomed love into piercing narratives and poetry that are both startlingly honest and brutally beautiful. With “Far Side of the Moon”, Murphy finally takes the crown as poet laureate for the dazed and confused generation, painting a brilliantly vivid and moving portrait of lost love, as well as the blurred lines between devotion and despair. In his own words, “It’s about stretching yourself too thin for someone you love to the point where it’s not healthy for the relationship at all.”
Since 2011, when he went properly viral before the word even existed, Murphy has carved out his own extraordinary path to success. With his first EP as Chet Faker, Thinking in Textures, he won Breakthrough Artist of the Year and Best Independent Single/EP at the Australian Independent Records Awards, consolidating his reputation as an artist on a meteoric rise. The following years saw him launch into the pop stratosphere: his cover of Blackstreet’s “No Diggity” was featured in a Super Bowl commercial, and his 2014 debut LP Built on Glass debuted at #1, spawning the hits “Gold” and “Talk Is Cheap” (the latter topping Triple J’s Hottest 100) and ultimately earning five ARIA Awards.
With well over a billion streams and a career defined by restless creativity, Murphy has zigged where others have zagged — collaborating with artists like Flume and Marcus Marr, and releasing several acclaimed albums under his own name. In 2021, he came full circle with the Chet Faker album Hotel Surrender, featuring the hit “Low”. In a story of constant reinvention, ‘Far Side of the Moon’ is shimmering proof that this evolution is far from over.
Tickets for HERE at Outernet on 24th October 2025 can be purchased HERE.
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