A stellar, innovative and absorbing debut LP project by London multi-instrumentalist, composer and writer Ursula Russell fusing folk, chamber pop and gentle post-punk. It includes a clever protest song about a ravaged planet in former Song of the Day Welcome To The Noosphere, but there’s much more to soak in here from opener Reverse Invisible, which has some parallels with Cate Le Bon and at times early PJ Harvey, all the way to closing track Requiem For A Customer. On that track, as well as the gorgeous Goodbye George and saxophone is by regular collaborator Alabaster dePlume, but on all other tracks the multi-talented Ursula plays all the other instruments. The music is variously haunting on the opener, oddball electronica on Noosphere, upbeat and catchy on the Latin-esque Boundaries (For Linda), melancholy, intimate acoustic folk on Baby, bright and ethereal on She Pixelates. A hyper-sensitive album with a theme of “tracing a constellation of various entangled characters as they perpetually transform and integrate separate parts of self within the context of an increasingly mechanised society.” Utterly absorbing and alternative. Out on Faith And Industry.
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