

Nat Dunn’s superpower is her knack for using mood and rhythm to catapult you into a story. For Charli XCX, the Queensland-born tunesmith conjured a morning-after monologue on the mournful “5 in the Morning”; for ZAYN, she summoned the cascading melodies of the lusty reverie “Windowsill”. Whether she’s channelling pure joy (on “Alive”, with Naations) or gentle support (see Rita Ora’s “Carry On”), Dunn deploys pop tropes to delve into the nooks and crannies of a moment.