Jacqui Hunt releases first solo album in 18 years, ‘Desiderium’
Jacqui Hunt of Single Gun Theory releases the album “Desiderium” on June 26, 2026, her first solo album in 18 years, on CD, vinyl and digital.
Jacqui Hunt “Desiderium” is the new album from Australian vocalist Jacqui Hunt, of Single Gun Theory, released on June 26, 2026 through QUSP. The 11-track “Desiderium” is her first solo album in 18 years, issued on CD, limited-edition vinyl and digital.
Jacqui Hunt brings an ethereal, electronic sound that mixes cinematic synths with piano and organic instrumentation. She describes the album as “like stepping out of your body for a while and grounding back to earth — floating on a synth wave while holding the raw reality of a simple piano. The bones that connect to the human voice like a string of air as it floats to the ether and returns to base.”
Inside Jacqui Hunt ‘Desiderium’
“Desiderium” runs 11 tracks: “Desiderium,” “Look At The Sky,” “Planet,” “Cecilia,” “Cape Of Light,” “This Love,” “Temple Of Illumination,” “Follow Me Here,” “Cycles,” “Mother” and “Alice Magic.” Hunt recorded the album at QUSP Studios in Sydney, handling vocals, keys and production. Brian Conolly added synth, bass and guitar and engineered the record, Laurence Pike played drums, and Daniel Denholm contributed zither, strings and cello and mixed the album. Michael Lynch mastered it. The closing track also appears as “Alice Magic (K.I.M. Remix),” reworked by Kim Moyes of The Presets.
The album is out on CD, limited-edition vinyl and digital. Hunt released an official video for “Planet”:
About Jacqui Hunt
Jacqui Hunt is an Australian vocalist who co-founded the electronic group Single Gun Theory in Sydney in 1986 with Kath Power and Pete Rivett-Carnac. The band released “Exorcise This Wasteland” in 1987, “Millions, Like Stars in My Hands, The Daggers in My Heart Wage War” in 1991 and “Flow, River of My Soul” in 1994, and was discovered for the Canadian label Nettwerk by Tom Ellard of Severed Heads.
Hunt also sang on Delerium‘s album “Karma” (1997), the project of Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber, contributing to the track “Euphoria (Firefly).” Her debut solo album, “Auraphonic,” appeared in 2008. “Desiderium,” released on June 26, 2026, is her first solo album since, and arrives 40 years after she co-founded Single Gun Theory.
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