100% Home Grown, June 2026: Olivia Pearl
Highland FM’s 100% Home-Grown Artist of the Month for June 2026 is Olivia Pearl, a Southern Tablelands pop artist with powerful vocals, emotionally charged songwriting and a growing list of achievements to her name.
Since releasing her first official pop single, We’ll Never Know, Olivia has continued to build momentum as one of the region’s most exciting emerging artists. She has been named a Top 40 finalist in the Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition, opened for ARIA-nominated artist Odette, supported ARIA winner Conrad Sewell and performed live on air for Power FM after winning their talent competition in 2025.
Olivia has also previously been recognised by Highland FM as “one of the most compelling voices on the Southern Tablelands music scene”.
Photos: Shonny Photography
All Roads Lead To This
Olivia has now released her debut album, ALL ROADS LEAD TO THIS, a nine-track indie-pop album written by Olivia Pearl Foti and produced by Olivia in collaboration with Stephen Lindsay of Oceanic Records.
Recorded at Old Binda Road Studios in the Southern Tablelands, the album explores recurring fears, anxieties and emotional patterns through vivid motifs of roads, vehicles, headlights and rearview mirrors.
Across the album, Olivia connects the dangers, noise and unpredictability of motor transport with deeply human experiences of grief, longing, loss, isolation and wishful thinking.The album features two previously released singles, 60 Zone and Resist It, alongside seven additional tracks, including Don’t Walk Away, which Highland FM listeners may remember from an exclusive acoustic version Olivia recorded during her earlier 100% Home-Grown feature.
Photo: Shonny Photography
Album: All Roads Lead To This
A synth-driven, high-energy track that confronts Australia’s ongoing issues around consent, misogyny and the urgent need for greater respect, education and protection.
Written from grief, this track captures the way memories of someone lost can return suddenly and knock the wind out of you all over again.
A haunting track about social anxiety, isolation and the fight against the intrusive thoughts that try to convince you that you are alone or not enough.
Built around piano, bass and drums, this song reflects on the systems, distractions and power structures that keep people trapped in harmful cycles.
A deceptively light-sounding song about losing people, growing apart and learning not to keep returning to those who do not value your heart.
Beginning as a piano ballad, this track looks back on love, grief and the difficulty of dating after knowing someone who truly understood you.
A previous single, Resist It explores the magnetic pull of someone who may feel exciting in the moment but cannot give you what you need.
The album’s longest track, Find Me is a whimsical but anxious song about long-distance yearning, unmet effort and the hope of finding a love that finally shows up.
First written when Olivia was around seventeen, this dreamy closing track captures the innocent longing of a crush and appears here in its fullest album version.
Album credits
- Lyrics and performance: Olivia Pearl Foti
- Producers: Olivia Pearl Foti and Stephen Lindsay
- Engineer: Stephen Lindsay
- Piano: Olivia Pearl Foti
- Percussion and drums: Ben Malone
- Mixing engineers: Stephen Lindsay and Olivia Pearl Foti
- Mastering engineer: Stephen Lindsay
- Recorded at Old Binda Road Studios with Oceanic Records, Southern Tablelands, NSW
- Album covers and photography: Shonny Photography
A voice worth remembering
Olivia’s single 60 Zone has already received praise from Happy Mag, which described the track as “utterly infectious” and compared her vocal style to the likes of Chappell Roan.
With ALL ROADS LEAD TO THIS, Olivia continues to build on the momentum she has created across the Southern Tablelands music scene and beyond. The album captures an artist with a clear sense of direction, a distinct pop sound and a willingness to turn deeply personal emotions into music that feels honest, polished and powerful.Highland FM is proud to celebrate Olivia Pearl as our 100% Home-Grown Artist of the Month for June 2026.