Circuit des Yeux - Reaching for Indigo - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The second album from Brisbane-Meanjin indie-folk five-piece Full Power Happy Hour builds on the immense promise of their 2020 self-titled debut, adding a gorgeous tinge of alt-country elegance to their inherent feel-good jangle-pop foundations. This musical bed - assembled collaboratively allowing the band's true spirit to shine through - proves the perfect foil for frontperson Alex Campbell's compellingly personal lyrics documenting a tumultuous period in their life, an at times fraught journey recast into beautiful, eloquent art. The 10 songs veer from bright, upbeat toe-tappers to plaintive, introspective ballads, but flow together superbly due to the group's underlying camaraderie and fast-blossoming chemistry. At times reminiscent of forebears like The Go-Betweens and The Clean, with flourishes of Lucinda Williams and contemporaries like Big Thief and The Weather Station, Bit Of Brightness is 100% Full Power Happy Hour and one utterly beguiling aural experience.1 Well Again2 Bit of Brightness 3 Siblings 4 Measurements 5 Twenny Twenny One6 Joan7 Paper Boat8 Strong in Numbers 9 Fledgling10 You Can Be Cold

Last fall, when Circuit des Yeux (aka CdY, aka Haley Fohr) released the stand-alone single InchGod Dick,Inch she described the song as a passage leading from the past toward things to come. InchIt served a chrysalis function,Inch she wrote of the track, which morphs between orchestral grandeur and shuddering electronic percussion. Fohr called it, InchA love banshee bursting through porcelain skin one hair at a time until, finally, the beast within is fully on display.InchOut March 14th, 'Halo On The Inside' is the product of that metamorphosis. It is the butterfly and the beast - a rhapsodic, hedonistic, dance floor-adjacent, pagan-friendly, horns-adorning wall of sound and emotion. Halo on the Inside finds CdY renewed, recombinant, and thrillingly alien.A Chicago based musician, composer, and multidisciplinary artist, Fohr's work defies easy categorization. It has encompassed critically acclaimed albums, free-form improvisation, painting, audio visual installations, and large ensemble compositions. She has performed in an anechoic chamber (a room with no echo), written for a 50-piece children's choir, and plunged from a rooftop (under the supervision of a stunt-coordinator).There's shock in metamorphosis, 'Halo On The Inside' tells us, but there's also levity and beauty. A moment of seclusion and dislocation yielding to rebirth and ominous beauty.

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