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New Music

Listen: Lucy Cliche – New Directions

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Something to look forward to: Lucy Cliche, aka Lucy Phelan, aka one half of Half High, Naked on the Vague and Knitted Abyss, is releasing her own record later this year. ‘New Directions’ is one of the most texturally luxurious songs I’ve heard since the last Angel Eyes LP: listen to those ever-so-slightly clipping chimes, and the way they sound stuck somewhere between new age and the minimal score to a 1980s made-for-TV drama. That’s exactly the best sound you can make with any instrument. There’s a bit of an early 4AD mood here as well but it’s goth sans frills and lace, and with a disorienting, hall-of-mirrors wrongness to it. This record is gonna be great, I can feel it.

The record is called Picture Yourself. It was recorded in Belgium and will be out later in 2013.

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New Music

Listen: Knitted Abyss – End of Time

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Here’s a nice surprise: Knitted Abyss is the duo of Lucy Phelan (NOTV, Half High) and Anna John (Holy Balm, Raw Prawn), and this is the first new material they’ve released together for… a very long time. They put out a self-titled CD-R back in 2009, and then a tape if I remember correctly, before disappearing into the usual fug of other side projects, priorities etc. Whatever the case, they’ve reemerged a very different group to what they used to be, with songwriting apparently taking the forefront nowadays.  ‘End of Time’ is lovely, but also kinda weird because it’s equal parts bright and drowsy, like a really tired party determined to stay awake. Nothing’s simple, right? Never allow it to be.

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