Jane Weavers experimental ensemble in collaboration with Peter Philipson and Raz Ullah, Fenella returns with a hallucinogenic excursion into ambient textures and hypnagogic drones on new album The Metallic Index. Taking further steps into their combined compositional universe with this follow-up to 2019s acclaimed FehÈrlÛfia album.
Loosely based on a genuine story accounting the short-lived abilities of a young psychic nurse in 1920s London, Fenellas niche muse justifies this celebratory return to vinyl but not once does it fall into the supposed tropes of staid hauntological-plunderphonics which repeatedly come to muddy our thirsty streams. Fenella make spirited melodic progressive pop music that pulsates with the same magnetism that fans of Jane Weaver's own The Silver Globe and Modern Kosmology have come to expect and hold closely.
Handcrafted using a generous archive of some of the best vintage equipment in the country (partly recorded at Soundgas studios in Darkest Derbyshire) the sound structures you hear at the heart of this album form the basis for Fenella's best work yet, while the individual spectral vocalisations and ethereal electronics that circle the room capture this trio's return, as peripheral visions, in full-phantasmic bloom.
"A sonic exaltation and refinement of craft, going further into the realms of atmospheric abstract cosmology blissfully morphed with the mythopoetic" The Quietus
Side A A1 Pulsion (Nurse On Train) A2 Instituts MÈtapsychique A3 "A young girl of medium height" A4 Hexagonal Table A5 Telekinetoscopes Side B B1 Shadow Apparatus B2 The Metallic Index B3 Lilacs Illuminate In Indigo B4 After the Visions B5 Stellar In Spectra B6 Are They With You? (The Final Chord)
- Released: 12/16/22
- Format: Vinyl
- Genre: Rock
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- Format Detail: LP [w/ download card]
