LADYHAWKE: Yeah, it was - I was very overprotective, which every, you know, mother of a newborn is, but I took quite an extreme extent. SIMON: Maybe a lot of people would benefit from you telling us what it felt like, what you noticed in yourself with the advantage of hindsight. And then - yeah, then I just sort of had the battle of postnatal depression for, like, a good couple of years before I really realized how bad it was. My daughter was only 10 months at the time, so that was a bit of a struggle.
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I was living in Los Angeles and moved back to New Zealand to have my daughter, which was just incredible, and then went through a whole host of things, a bit of postnatal depression, I was also diagnosed with melanoma, which was not great. It's been a bit of a ride lately the last few years. You married, you gave birth to your daughter, Billie Jean, blessed events, but you've struggled with a couple of things too, haven't you? SIMON: Well, bring us up to date on your life. SIMON: And Ladyhawke, Pip Brown, joins us now from Auckland, New Zealand. LADYHAWKE: (Singing) What good is a day when it's hidden away? You're burning the sage chasing demons away. But much of her new album sounds upbeat with a sparkle reminiscent of 1980s pop. She hasn't had a release in five years, and she's been through a lot over the past couple of years. Ladyhawke won breakthrough artist in the 2009 Australian Recording Industry Music Awards. And the longer I wait, the harder I'm gonna fall. LADYHAWKE: (Singing) Hey, you're playing with my delirium.
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You probably remember Ladyhawke, the New Zealand singer-songwriter born Pip Brown from this 2008 hit My Delirium. (SOUNDBITE OF LADYHAWKE SONG, "MY DELIRIUM")