Sleuth is Melissa Francis, a female singer-songwriter and pianist from southwest Victoria. She pairs soaring soulful vocals over cool minimalist funk, electronic beats, and quirky alt-pop tunes. Lyrics are dark and bitter sweet, with sharp edges. 

Sleuth released debut ten track original album 'Umbra Anima' in January 2019. Forte music magazine (Australia) recently described the album as 'incredible', giving it a 5 star rating, and describing Sleuth's sound as 'cinematic', with vocal work that would 'make Beth Gibbons (Portishead) proud'. 

Sleuth was the February winner in RadioEasternFM's 'New Music' competition (Victoria), with track Empty Room, and also coming 3rd with track Make A Meal. 

Sleuth enjoy regular airplay on a number of community radio stations in Australia and the UK. In March 2019, Umbra Anima was featured as album of the week in Otway Coast FM’s ‘Australian Bacchanalia’ program.

In additional to ‘Umbra Anima’, which was released in January 2019, Sleuth continue to write and perform new music, with music video ‘High Stakes’ released  July 12th, and most recently a 7-track funk album, ‘Fly By Design’ released Sep 15.

Most of Sleuth’s released music can be found here:

https://sleuthartist.bandcamp.com

MUSIC VIDEO: (High Stakes)
https://youtu.be/TEb7BtKdZ4g