She's quirky. She's bizarre. She likes the smell of cow dung. She's got a killer falsetto and Kate Miller-Heidke is on her way to Western Australia to wow us all with her latest album Curiouser which is sure to raise more than a few eyebrows.

The songstress became a prominent presence on the airwaves with ARIA award-winning album Little Eve.  While Miller-Heidke was glad to have finally put the album out she said it held little cohesiveness for her.  "It was basically a hodge podge melting pot of everything I had written and thought about for the past 10 years," she said. Little Eve put Miller-Heidke firmly on Australian alternative music map and has scored her a cult following. Now Miller-Heidke is eagerly anticipating the release of her follow-up album Curiouser.

The album was written in record time and features some wacky tracks and covers. Miller-Heidke said the title for the album had been born from an unusual description given to her performance by a journalist in Melbourne. "She said that I was like Alice in wonderland who had drunk too much of the wrong potion," Miller-Heidke said. "I thought that was cool because I really am like that - wonky, slightly subversive and warped. And I think Alice in Wonderland is cool."

Curiouser was a collaboration effort between Miller-Heidke and her guitarist and partner Kier Nuttall. The concept for the album was born while the two were drinking beer by the river and talking about the music they love. Miller-Heidke and Nuttall cooked up a vision for the album they wanted to make which had the criteria that it must be "fearless", theatrically inclined and have some operatic elements. The songs would include some genuine heartfelt ballads and some more humorous numbers they had been reluctant to create in Little Eve.

"Once we had the aesthetic and the criteria sorted out we wrote a lot of the songs in quick succession," Miller-Heidke said. "We had built our own home studio so we really just spent a few months muching around, playing with toys and fiddling with arrangements." An entertaining track Can't Shake It is currently dominating the airwaves and tells the tale of a "booty that just won't shake".

"It was like everywhere we'd go there seemed to be a song about someone shaking their booty so we kinda thought it would be cool to write a dance song about someone who couldn't dance," Miller-Heidke said. "Obviously I've observed many people on the dance floor over years so I know what I'm talking about…I occasionally execute the moonwalk while I'm there."

Miller-Heidke will be touring heavily around Australia for the rest of the year. While she gets a buzz from performing on stage she said the other aspects of touring were very difficult.

"When its 2am and you've finished just finished your gig and you haven't had dinner yet and you're wandering the streets in a fruitless search to get something to eat and everyone in the band has low blood sugar….yeah it gets to be hard work touring," she said. "But the short time that I get to spend on stage makes it all worthwhile."

- Nikkita Dixon