Spells - Past Our Prime - VINYL LP

Spells - Loose Change Vol. 2 [VINYL LP] date 07/07/2023

Vinyl LP pressing. 2019 . Patience began as bedroom synth project for songwriter Roxanne Clifford after the break-up of her acclaimed indie pop band Veronica Falls. Born out of a desire to experiment with a new sound and analogue synthesizers, the project has since grown to become an all-encompassing persona and serves as the main vehicle for the full emotional spectrum always latent in Clifford's songwriting. Dizzy Spells serves as an intimate portrait of Clifford's creative adventure, almost diaristic, conceived and recorded in her home studio, as well as with collaborators Todd Edwards (Daft Punk/UK Garage fame), Lewis Cook (Free Love/Happy Meals) and engineer Misha Hering (Virginia Wing). Dizzy Spells delivers a debut album that twists Clifford's songwriting into new shapes and ecstasies. The album dances around melancholy, thrown to the floor like a bad dream to be circled, emerging bright-eyed into the early morning full of hope. More than a vehicle for Roxanne Clifford's songwriting prowess, Patience is holding our hand through the night, dancing with tears in our eyes, dizzy and spellbound. Album Tracks 1. The Girls Are Chewing Gum 2. Living Things Don't Last 3. White of An Eye 4. No Roses 5. Aerosol 6. The Church 7. Voices in the Sand 8. Moral Damage 9. The Pressure 10. Silent House

Mazy Fly, the second full-length by the Bay Area artist SPELLLING, explores the tension between the thrill of exploring the unknown and the terror of imminent destruction. Chrystia Cabral spent the summer of 2018 in her Berkeley studio reflecting on the thresholds of human progress and longing for a new and better tomorrow. She was struck by the way the same technologies that have given humans the ability to achieve utopian dreams of discovery have also brought the world to the precipice of dystopic global devastation. Despite the darkness of this reality, Mazy Fly is defiantly optimistic. It is a celestial voyage into the unknown, piloted by Cabral. Mazy Fly musically traverses the spaces between languid, honey-soaked vocals and distant angelic whispers, from thumping 808 club beats to crunching tape loops, and from silky, smooth R&B to whirling organ sonatas. Cabral became enamored by the idea of flight as a harbinger of both progress and apocalypse, and that was expressed in the textures and compositional techniques she utilized. Swarms, flocks, flies, angels, spaceships, flying saucers - all are represented sonically by Cabral and her Juno-106 synthesizer. Album Tracks 1. Red 2. Haunted Water 3. Hard to Please 4. Golden Numbers 5. Melted Wings 6. Under the Sun 7. Real Fun 8. Hard to Please (Reprise) 9. After Life 10. Dirty Desert Dreams 11. Mazy Fly 12. Falling Asleep