- Label: 'Lady Sometimes Records'
- Genre: 'Indie'
- Release Date: '25th September 2015'
Our Rating:
Lisa Masia and Marina Cristofalo are two young women from Sardinia who divide their time between shoegazing and looking to outer space for inspiration.
This is their fourth album to date and, though written on their Mediterranean island home, it was conceived while touring in Europe and in the USA. Their preparations and experimentations included a time in a home studio in Hackney, London.
The result is a form of cosmic synth pop that seems to emanate from a new agey bubble far removed from the rigours of daily existence.
The hazy, floatly textures tend to be overly precious at times but the strong melodies and swelling harmonies can also be endearing.
The pure pop of the opening track,Stealing, for example, is as luminous as the brightest glitterball and the motorik of From The Earth To Above has a genuine sense that they are travelling to interesting places.
Dancing Star, co-produced and mixed with Tom Furse of The Horrors, best epitomises the shapeshifting aspects of their songs. The video to this finds the duo dabbling in psychedelic imagery whilst espousing affirmations like "There's still time to find your light".
The shiny lightness dazzles yet personally, I would have welcomed more of the dark, dense rhythms that we hear on Midnight Fall to balance things up a little.
There's only so much time you can spend blinded by stars and lost in a dreamy soundscape before the demands of real world come knocking.
