Fenne Lily - Big Picture - Ultramarine - VINYL LP

I never asked you to change and you're treating me like I did, the more I'm thinking about it, maybe I should've startedInch _____ Fenne Lily opens her third album with a confrontation. At odds with the UK-born, New York-based artist's dulcet delivery, this acerbic assessment of an intimate situation sets the tone for her third album perfectly. From the first line to the last, Big Picture finds Fenne seeking clarity in the uncertain; comfort in the uncomfortable. A gorgeous and gripping portrait of Fenne's last two years, Big Picture was rarely easy for it's author to produce but it's contents offer a brilliant catharsis. Started haltingly after a period of writer's block, the songs that would make up her latest work were pieced together over the course of the pandemic, in an effort to self-soothe. InchWriting this album was my attempt at bringing some kind of order to the disaster that was 2020,Inch Fenne states. InchBy documenting the most vulnerable parts of that time, I felt like I reclaimed some kind of autonomy.Inch Though it's creation took place amid personal and global turmoil, the ruminative yet candid Big Picture is Fenne's most cohesive, resolute work to date, both lyrically and sonically. InchThis isn't a sad album - it's about as uplifting as my way of doing things will allow,Inch she says. InchThese songs explore worry and doubt and letting go, but those themes are framed brightly. There's a sadness to the temporary nature of things, but that can be soothing, too.Inch Like whispered assurances that seemingly unanswerable questions will someday resolve themselves, each track provides an insight into Fenne's ever-changing view of love and, ultimately, it's redefinition - love as a process, not something to be lost and found. Notably, these 10 songs are Fenne's first and only to have been written over the course of a relationship; 2018's On Hold and 2020's

Isolation is nothing new for Fenne Lily - in fact, she's written an album of songs all about it. InchIt's kind of like writing a letter, and leaving it in a book that you know you'll get out when you're sad - like a message to yourself in the future,Inch she says, referring to BREACH, her Dead Oceans debut she wrote during a period of self-enforced isolation pre-COVID. It's an expansive, diaristic, frequently sardonic record that deals with the mess and the catharsis of entering your 20s and finding peace while being alone. InchI think this record is proof that I can be emotionally stable, even if right now I feel a little bit up and down,Inch says Fenne. InchThere's the ability to find clarity in that. It's sobering, weirdly.Inch Fenne was born in London and moved to Dorset as a toddler, where she grew up in the picturesque English countryside. She was a Inchfree range kid,Inch as she calls it, after her parents took her out of school for a period at the age of seven. Over the following year, they taught her while the family travelled Europe in a live-in bus. Even after she returned to traditional school at 9, her home education never ended, extending to music. Her mother gifted Fenne with her old record collection, through which she discovered her love for T-Rex and the Velvet Underground and Nico. Soon after she fell for the strange genius of PJ Harvey and came to worship Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell, and the richly crafted worlds of Feist, which inspired Fenne to pick up a guitar. It's that journey to find peace inside herself that underpins the whole of Fenne's second album. It's title, BREACH, occurred to Fenne after deep conversations with her mum about her birth, during which she was breech, or upside down in the womb. The slippery double-sidedness of the word - which, spelled with an InchAInch, means to Inchbreak throughInch - drew her in. InchThat feels like wh

Fenne was born in London and moved to Dorset as a toddler, where shegrew up in the picturesque English countryside. She was a Inchfree range kid,Inchas she calls it, after her parents took her out of school for a period at the ageof seven. Over the following year, they taught her while the family travelledEurope in a live-in bus. Even after she returned to traditional school at 9,her home education never ended, extending to music. Her mother giftedFenne with her old record collection, through which she discovered her lovefor T-Rex and the Velvet Underground and Nico. Soon after she fell for thestrange genius of PJ Harvey and came to worship Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell,and the richly crafted worlds of Feist, which inspired Fenne to pick up a guitar.InchOn Hold,Inch a tender collection of expressive, open-hearted songs, was Fenne'sfirst foray into songwriting, written during her teenage years. Writing her ownsongs was initially a Inchtherapy exerciseInch for Fenne, who is normally reservedwhen it comes to talking about her feelings. The album, self-released in 2018,organically found a large audience online, which grew after she opened forLucy Dacus and Andy Shauf's North American tours last spring. Surroundingit's , The Line of Best Fit deemed Fenne Incha new and extraordinary voicecapable of wringing profound and resonant moments out of loss.InchInchTo have this record physically re-released is a big deal for me and the personI was when I made it. A lot's changed since then but these songs and whatthey've given me will remain dependable reminders of beginnings andendings that shaped me as a teenager. For an album whose title is half 'hold',it makes sense that now whoever wants to can finally do that again.Inch Album Tracks 1. Car Park 2. Three Oh Nine 3. What's Good 4. The Hand You Deal 5. More Than You Know 6. On Hold 7. Top to Toe 8. Bud 9. Broth