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Tess Roby – Century

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date April 25, 2022

I really liked Tess Roby’s 2018 album Beacon – especially the song Plasticine Hills – a perfect balance of haunting synths and her extraordinary vocal – so the release of her new LP Ideas of Space last week was very welcome. Century is the opening track and immediately draws you into her intimate, fragile world, with glistening chords and hushed percussion providing the ideal framework for her wonderful voice to work its magic.

https://tessroby.com

Tags century, chamber pop, electronic, ideas of space, tess roby

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Clara Engel – Dead Tree March

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date April 15, 2022

If there is an artist bio more hopelessly, beautifully melancholic than “I’m not writing the same song over and over so much as writing one long continuous song that will end when I die”, I am yet to read it. Taken from their new LP Their Invisible Hands which lands today, Dead Tree March fully embodies the threads of sorrow and despair which run through the album, with Engel’s mournful strings brought to the fore against a backbone of funereal percussion.

Photo credit: Ilyse Krivel

https://claraengel.bandcamp.com

Tags chamber pop, clara engel, dead tree march, folk, their invisible hands