Child in Reverse

The album was recorded in Melbourne, produced by Evan Klar and features 11 songs about love and fear, memory and empathy, rage and redemption. Miller-Heidke said "What I love about Evan's style is his freshness, a feeling of spontaneity. Musically the whole album came together really smoothly. I think that comes across when you listen to it."{{cite web|url=https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kate-miller-heidke-pop-album-child-in-reverse-15258/|title=Kate Miller-Heidke Returns to Pop Music with New LP, Child in Reverse|website=Rolling Stone Australia|date=6 August 2020|accessdate=8 August 2020|archive-date=19 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919220850/https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kate-miller-heidke-pop-album-child-in-reverse-15258/|url-status=live}}

Despite her achievements in opera, musical theatre and screen production in recent years, Miller-Heidke said she keeps "..getting drawn back to pop music". Miller-Heidke said "The minimalism, the economy... I find that incredibly rewarding and challenging. It's like a quest to nail the perfect pop song. When it can be done, for me, as a listener, it's my favourite music."{{cite web|url=https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/kate-miller-heidke-announces-new-album-child-in-reverse/|title=Kate Miller-Heidke Announces New Album Child in Reverse|website=Music Feeds|date=6 August 2020|accessdate=8 August 2020|archive-date=21 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921161925/https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/kate-miller-heidke-announces-new-album-child-in-reverse/|url-status=live}}

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Guido Farnell from The Music AU said "Child in Reverse delivers eleven nuggets of finely crafted pop tunes that are soft, dreamy and impossibly silky smooth whilst moving to compulsive grooves." Farnell commented on Miller-Heidke's lyrics saying "[She] is in an introspective mood, dealing with difficult haunting memories, disappointment and the hurt of a broken heart" adding "the struggle is real but a light touch, with airy synths and sweet pop hooks complete with the cheeky little operatic trills Miller-Heidke likes to slip in here and there, prevents this line of thought from getting completely depressing. This approach manoeuvres the album to a place where Miller-Heidke and listeners can find inner strength rather than defeat". Farrell concluded saying the album "is adult pop music which, presented in fresh feel good tones, runs very deep."

ABC said "Miller-Heidke once again gives us appealing, boundary-pushing pop music that is always refreshing, often emotional, and as thought-provoking as you want it to be" calling the album "Refreshing, poignant and playful art-pop".{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/featured-music/feature-albums1/kate-miller-heidke-child-in-reverse-review/12832042|title=Kate Miller-Heidke – Child In Reverse|website=ABC|date=2 November 2020|accessdate=8 November 2020|archive-date=8 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108223812/https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/featured-music/feature-albums1/kate-miller-heidke-child-in-reverse-review/12832042|url-status=live}}

All tracks are produced by Evan Klar, except where noted.

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| total_length = 37:46

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| all_writing =

| title1 = Deluded

| writer1 = {{flatlist|

• Kate Miller-Heidke
• Evan Klar
• Hailey Collier}}

| length1 = 3:26

| title2 = Simpatico

| note2 = featuring Mallrat

| writer2 = {{flatlist|

• Miller-Heidke
• Klar
• Collier}}

| length2 = 3:43

| title3 = Born Lucky

| writer3 = {{flatlist|

• Miller-Heidke
• Klar
• Collier}}

| length3 = 2:55

| title4 = Twelve Year Old Me

| writer4 = {{flatlist|

• Miller-Heidke
• Klar
• Collier}}

| length4 = 3:09

| title5 = You Can't Hurt Me Anymore

| writer5 = {{flatlist|

• Miller-Heidke
• Tobias Kuhn
• Maddison Cash}}

| extra5 = {{flatlist|

• Klar
• Kuhn}}

| length5 = 3:42

| title6 = Little Roots, Little Shoots

| writer6 = {{flatlist|

• Miller-Heidke
• Klar
• Collier
• Lally Katz
• Keir Nuttall}}

| length6 = 3:36

| title7 = Hectic Glitter

| writer7 = {{flatlist|

• Miller-Heidke
• Alethea Wiles}}

| length7 = 3:30

| title8 = People Pleaser

| writer8 = {{flatlist|

• Miller-Heidke
• Nuttall}}

| length8 = 3:38

| title9 = A Quiet Voice

| writer9 = {{flatlist|

• Miller-Heidke
• Klar
• Kuhn
• Collier}}

| extra9 = {{flatlist|

• Klar
• Kuhn{{ref|a|[a]}}}}

| length9 = 3:28

| title10 = Child of Divorce

| writer10 = {{flatlist|

• Miller-Heidke
• Klar
• Nuttall
• Collier}}

| length10 = 3:22

| title11 = This Is Not Forever

| writer11 = {{flatlist|

• Miller-Heidke
• Justin Stanley
• Ingrid Andress}}

| extra11 = Stanley

| length11 = 3:17

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Child in Reverse (deluxe edition) track listing

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title12 = You Can't Hurt Me Anymore

| note12 = featuring Jaguar Jonze

| writer12 = {{flatlist|

• Miller-Heidke
• Kuhn
• Cash}}

| extra12 = {{flatlist|

• Klar
• Kuhn
• Jaguar Jonze
• Aidan Hogg}}

| length12 = 3:25

| title13 = Amazing

| note13 = Double J - Live at the Wireless) (featuring Jess Hitchcock

| writer13 = {{flatlist|

• Miller-Heidke
• Nuttall}}

| extra13 = Miller-Heidke

| length13 = 3:28

| title14 = Zero Gravity

| note14 = live at ABC's New Years Eve 2020

| writer14 = {{flatlist|

• Miller-Heidke
• Nuttall
• Julian Hamilton}}

| extra14 = Miller-Heidke

| length14 = 3:25

| title15 = I Wanna Dance with Somebody

| note15 = live at The State of Music

| writer15 = {{flatlist|

• George Merrill
• Shannon Rubicam}}

| length15 = 3:56

| title16 = Paint It Black

| note16 = live

| writer16 = {{flatlist|

• Keith Richards
• Mick Jagger}}

| extra16 = Miller-Heidke

| length16 = 2:44

| title17 = Deluded

| note17 = live at The Espy for The Sound

| writer17 = {{flatlist|

• Miller-Heidke
• Klar
• Collier}}

| extra17 = Miller-Heidke

| length17 = 3:32

| title18 = People Pleaser

| note18 = live

| writer18 = {{flatlist|

• Miller-Heidke
• Nuttall}}

| extra18 = Miller-Heidke

| length18 = 4:42

| title19 = A Quiet Voice

| note19 = live

| writer19 = {{flatlist|

• Miller-Heidke
• Klar
• Kuhn
• Collier}}

| extra19 = Miller-Heidke

| length19 = 4:06

| title20 = You Can't Hurt Me Anymore

| note20 = live

| writer20 = {{flatlist|

• Miller-Heidke
• Kuhn
• Cash}}

| extra20 = Miller-Heidke

| length20 = 3:31

| title21 = This Is Not Forever

| note21 = featuring Sydney Symphony Orchestra

| writer21 = {{flatlist|

• Miller-Heidke
• Stanley
• Andress}}

| extra21 = Elise McCann

| length21 = 3:30

}}

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