Stella - Up and Away (Limited Loser Edition) (Blue) - VINYL LP

Stella was born beside the sea and raised by a Canadian nanny who waterskied topless. Following the of two standout singles - InchSambaInch and InchThe RaceInch- the Athens-based artist is ready to share InchThe BreakInch, her international debut. Self- produced, and recorded primarily at her home studio, InchThe BreakInch brings together all the playfulness and spontaneity that characterizes Stella's music non-standard pop deviations whose shimmering feel-good surfaces are anchored by a powerful undertow of melancholy. Stella explains, InchThe Break has a lot to do with an Inchinner breakInch I was experiencing at the time. I intensely felt that I was moving from one place to another, musically and personally. I mean, if we look at the cover, I've turned myself into a bird and the circle - for me - indicates two different dimensions. Making it made me feel that I really wanted this music to travel, to infnity and beyond.Inch Based in Greece, Stella began writing music while still a student at the Athens School of Fine Art, and frst released songs into the wild of the Internet in 2012. Soon in demand as a guest writer and vocalist for an impressive cross section of the Greek underground scene, she also fexed her melodic muscle on more personal collaborative projects, such as Fever Kids and a series of acclaimed tracks with Nteibint. But it was striking out on her own, writing and releasing two solo albums - her self- titled 2015 debut InchStellaInch and 2017's InchWorks For YouInch - that brought her critical momentum, buzz and airplay, making her one of Greece's most popular indie stars. Now signed with Arbutus Records, she's ready to break out - and ready to break you in. Album Tracks 1. Bellaria 2. The Race 3. Simon Says 4. Samba 5. Forest 6. Monster 7. The Break 8. I'm Alone 9. Numéro 10. The River 11. Cherry 12. Sleeping Separate 1

Almost as soon as Stella Chronopoulou began writing Adagio, her fifth album as Stella, she knew the time had finally come to sing in Greek, her native tongue. It would be a first. She started the record almost by accident in 2019, during an 11-hour boat ride to the island of Anafi. Stella had recently gone through a patch of personal turmoil and needed a break from home. On the ferry, she pulled out her cell phone as the boat clipped through the Mediterranean and began with a simple melody, steadily piecing together a rough instrumental. As psychedelic keyboards twinkled and swayed above staccato drums, the track suggested some deep exhalation, as if Stella were letting go of long-unnecessary baggage. For a spell, she set the instrumental aside. She wasn't ready yet, or in a rush. Stella, after all, grew up in a slow place. During her youth in a relatively rural suburb of Athens, Greece, she and her friends played unfettered in empty streets, not worried about cars or permission, and living felt easy. But in the last decade life has steadily become busier for Stella, now based in the heart of Athens. She has become one of modern Greece's most popular musical exports, with three sophisticated, playful pop albums rendered with international élan. After her Sub Pop debut, Up and Away, in 2022, she catapulted beyond three million monthly Spotify listeners. That success was a blessing, but Stella sometimes found herself pining for the slower pace of her youth. That longing is the thread that loosely binds together her fifth album, the entrancing Adagio. Borrowing it's name from the term for music that's meant to be played slowly, Adagio is a pop record that feels like a very warm blanket, it's nylon-string guitars and featherlight percussion swaddling it's listeners for three minutes at a time. Written and recorded over the span of five years, with a consortium of internat

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