Bells Larsen - Blurring Time - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Bells Larsen (they/he/il) started writing their debut album, Good Grief, at the age of nineteen, the start of a hugely transitional time in their life. In the five years since, Larsen has moved across the country, studied philosophy at a small liberal arts college, dropped out, and then moved across the country again. Their life was also put on pause after the sudden death of their first love. InchThis loss left so many people with so many unanswered questions, myself included. I haven't always arrived at answers to these questions, but songwriting has provided me with a way to at least ask.InchThe first voice we hear on Good Grief does not belong to Larsen, but to their first love. InchReady?Inch she asks. As if to answer her, the album begins with an audio recording from 2013 of Larsen and their high school friends singing Sufjan Stevens' song InchThe Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!Inch around a campfire. InchWhen the record starts and my ex says Inchready?Inch there's a part of me that feels like - in some way - she's asking grown-up-me if I'm InchreadyInch to share my songs about grief now.Inch Good Grief captures a coming-of-age story - of an artist and of a human being - as they try to navigate the terrain of their existence and that of those around them. It's an experience of their loss but also honours the person that was lost to them. The record closes with a reprise of the InchWaspsInch audio recording, marrying the past and present as the old voice memo slowly fades into a newer one. Present-day Larsen sings, InchI can tell you I love her each dayInch a testament to the fact that their grief is- finally-good.1 Wasps2 Tongue Tied3 Double Aquarius4 Teenage Love5 Sweater Weather6 Say Something7 Atlantic Love/A Long & Distant Wave (feat. Devarrow)8 The Geography Of Leaving9 Cara10 Ribcage11 People Who Mean So Much To Me12 Wasps (Reprise)

Adopting a collaborative approach for the recording of their third album, Death Bells have returned Between Here & Everywhere, an effort that captures the cross-section of Southern California's shadowy hidden interzones, outside of the lights and luxury.The record features nine new songs that represent Will Canning and Remy Veselis' continual growth, as well as accompaniment by an experienced cast of contributors on keys, strings, piano, and operatic backup vocals. Recorded with Colin Knight at Paradise Studios, and mixed by Mike Kriebel at Golden Beat, Between Here & Everywhere bristles with immediacy and emotion, with every element tactile, balanced, and elevated.Between Here & Everywhere sets out to map the potent mess of Los Angeles. Canning cites the InchvastnessInch of the band's adopted home as a constant muse, and much like the city itself, the album ebbs gradually from harrowing to hopeful over it's 35-minute runtime. The lyrics are categorized as Inchnarrative, but not autobiographical,Inch born of intrigue, intimacy, and a sense of Inchlooking outward.Inch From the highly-strung blast of InchHysteriaInch, to the hypnotic rhythms of InchLifespringInch, and the staunchly resonant hope displayed in InchLast DaysInch, InchSpace Without A NameInch and InchEternity StreetInch, Between Here & Everywhere encompasses Death Bells' most captivating work to date.

2018 . The full-length debut by Julie Carpenter's Joshua Tree, California, ambient orchestral project Less Bells emerged from the drama and desolation of it's high desert origins. She cites certain compositions as being Inchspecifically inspired by August monsoons rolling in over the mountains, others by clear, starry nights.Inch Utilizing an array of electronic and acoustic instruments, including cello, Optigan, violin, voice, and modular synth, Solifuge conflates not only the solitude and refuge of it's title but also intimacy and grandeur, fragility and force, Inchbuilding from austerity to wild overgrowth.Inch She speaks of a creative process involving cut-ups and rearranging, mapping a melody for strings only to transpose it to synth, or refashioning a rigid classical piece as stream of consciousness soundscape. Carpenter's versatility and embrace of flux fills these songs with a living, breathing quality, restrained but responsive, adapting to shifting conditions and emotions beneath the surface.