Singing Our Futures & Bad Apples have been holding onto some exciting new music from our 2025 Singing Our Futures artists, and there’s no better time to share it than during NAIDOC 2026!
Across the next 6 weeks we will release 4 singles, celebrating the creativity, talent and stories of our emerging First Nations artists. Kicking things off with Wren Arkose and their single ‘I Choose My Name’ out now.
Following their debut single ‘Bones‘ released in May of 2025, one year later Wren Arkose has released their follow up single, ‘I Choose My Name’.
Wren Arkose is a singer-songwriter based in Melbourne, who grew up on Yagara Country. Since relocating to Wurundjeri country in 2016, Wren has become known for their ‘sad girl’ songs. Their music is a blend of folk, with undercurrents of dream-pop and alt-rock.
‘Bones‘ was written during an actively difficult time in Wren’s life, and ‘I Choose My Name’ is the culmination of a rebuilt identity and a rectified sense of self. Produced and co-written with Bailey Judd, this new track tells the story of choosing to build a new life by stepping outside of cycles of addiction and rumination.
It serves as a refusal of accepting the templates we are given to model our lives off of. The song unpacks the non-linear process of healing, a major cornerstone of Wren’s music, and shines a light towards building the life they want to live outside of familiar patterns.
