Ten years on from its original release, Ziggy Alberts celebrates the anniversary of his Four Feet in the Forest EP with a reimagined version of a fan favourite, Tell Me (Piano Version).
Reuniting with longtime friend and collaborator Garrett Kato, Alberts returned to the original recordings of Tell Me. Kato layered the track with a new spacious piano arrangement, reshaping the song into something both familiar and new. Describing the process as “time travel in totality,” Kato revisited and reshaped the decade-old recordings with a fresh perspective.
As Ziggy puts it, "diving back into those recordings - the voices, the raw recordings, the people we shared it with - felt pretty special. And what GK has created here gives Tell Me a whole new feeling 10 years on."
The release is accompanied by a visualiser filmed on Norfolk Island by Zach Sanders. Though over 16,000 kilometres from the Scandinavian landscapes where the EP was originally written, the island echoes a similar stillness and sense of refuge. Featuring slow, cinematic footage of Alberts surfing alongside dreamlike natural scenery, the visual offers a contemplative counterpart to the track’s introspective, ballad-like tone.
Tell Me (Piano Version) is released as part of the Four Feet in the Forest, 10th Anniversary Edition, a digital reissue of the 2016 indie-folk EP. The collection features the original five tracks, including Alberts’ breakout hit Runaway, alongside the newly reimagined sixth track. Rooted in his signature acoustic, stomp-clap folk sound, the EP continues to explore themes of vulnerability, heartbreak, and mental health, elements that have resonated with listeners around the world.
Originally recorded at Kato’s Byron Bay home studio and revisited in the same space ten years later, the anniversary edition bridges past and present. The original artwork by Mark DeKoning also returns, preserving a visual thread to the EP’s beginnings.
With Tell Me (Piano Version), Ziggy Alberts invites listeners to rediscover a defining chapter of his catalogue, an enduring indie-folk EP release with renewed meaning.