Irish musician Maria Somerville will release her second album and debut project on 4AD, Luster, this Friday. Ahead of it, Somerville shares the record’s final single, ‘Spring’ – a whirring and atmospheric dreamgaze track, full yet fleeting with distorted acoustic strumming, ghostly siren calls, commanding percussion, and a surprising auto-tuned outro. Over the last few months, Somerville introduced Luster’s haunting tranquility and lush sonic backdrop with three other singles from...
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Irish musician Maria Somerville will share her forthcoming second album and debut project on 4AD, Luster, on April 25. Today, she shares the upcoming record’s third single ‘Stonefly,’ a slinky ambient waltz fleshed out with dreamy washes of vibrating feedback, grounding drum beats, transportive harp passages, and soothing vocal delivery. The track’s release is also accompanied by an atmospheric music video directed by Daniel Swan. The visual perfectly suits the...
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Irish musician Maria Somerville announces her forthcoming second album and debut project on 4AD, Luster, due for release on April 25. To celebrate, she also shares the album’s second single, ‘Garden’, produced by Diego Herrera, aka Suzanne Kraft. The transportive track sinks her emotive siren-esque vocal stylings into a whirring, all-consuming merger of soaring feedback, airy percussion, and nostalgic guitar chords reminiscent of classic 4AD. Its release is accompanied by a music video filmed...
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