The Money War sign global deal with Mirror Publishing: Exclusive

The Money War is fully weaponised.

The Western Australia indie-pop duo has signed a global publishing deal with Mirror Publishing, a newly-formed joint venture with BMG, TIO can exclusively reveal.

Mirror Publishing is part of the Mirror Music Group, which has represented artists across its label and management company from Gang Of Youths to Charlie Collins, Middle Kids, Brad Cox, Sloan Peterson and more.

Formed in 2016 around the core of Dylan and Carmen Ollivierre, The Money War was never going to remain a mystery for long.

The pair has enjoyed a wad of critical praise, following dates at Southbound, FOTSUN, SXSW and Bigsound, and they’ve toured with the likes of Neil Finn, Meg Mac, Dope Lemon and Holy Holy.

Another breakthrough came in 2019, when their debut album Home was nominated for The Australian Music Prize.

Their dreamy 2020 single ‘Nothing’s Gonna Change’ caught the attention of tastemakers. Triple J Unearthed Music Director Dave Ruby Howe described it as a “gorgeous” and “warm” track. “What can’t they do,” he adds.

Stream The Money War’s ‘Nothing’s Gonna Change’:

“We’re so thrilled to launch our publishing company with Dylan and Carmen from The Money War,” notes Kurt Bailey, Director of Mirror Music and manager of Gang Of Youths.

“We’ve been massive fans of their music for years and extremely excited to be a part of their journey as songwriters.”

BMG represents a vast roster, including homegrown acts Tim Minchin, Dune Rats, Hockey Dad and Dope Lemon.

“Songwriting has always been the main focus of the Money War and my relationship to music generally – creating songs is my favourite thing in the world to do so it’s really great to have a team behind us to support that,” comments Dylan.

“Carmen and I have huge respect for Kurt and Ash and are super excited to be working with the wider team at Mirror and BMG.”

Stream The Money War’s ‘Lifetime’:

The deals comes ahead of The Money War’s second album release, Morning People, due out 20th November via Ditto Music.

Recorded at the band’s studio in Fremantle, the first single from it is ‘Beautiful You,’ which is scheduled to drop this Friday, 16th October.

In support of the latest release, The Money War will perform at Fremantle Arts Centre with Sam Carmody, on Sunday 29th November. Entry is free.

This article originally appeared on The Industry Observer, which is now part of The Music Network.