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Virginia Wing - Ecstatic Arrow (Blue Vinyl)

Virginia Wing - Ecstatic Arrow (Blue Vinyl)

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View Artist: Virginia Wing
SKU: ZM9N59-HFTJ-XN

  |  UPC: 809236149039

Their favourite records are the perfect counterbalance of the considered and the superficial. Whether its Madonna, Talking Heads or Holger Czukay - we enjoy these artists in the background with friends or profoundly and alone. Virginia Wing both understand and embrace this concept fully as they return with Ecstatic Arrow, an album which finds them in a place of renewed strength, optimism and clarity. Recorded in Switzerland, in the family home of longtime friend and collaborator Misha Hering within the domesticity and gentle routine of communal life, the album represents a world as predisposed to solemn introspection as it is to blithe conviviality. Ecstatic Arrow borrows from the heterogeneous terrain of The Flying Lizards Fourth Wall, the exuberant technology assisted pop of Yellow Magic Orchestra and the playful sophistication of Lizzy Mercier Desclouxs Press Colour, arriving at the evergreen intersection of pop music and conceptual art. The resolute opener of Be Released and album centre point The Female Genius pair resonant Fourth World instrumentation with sonorous, loping drum patterns. Elsewhere, the sentimental march of single The Second Shift plays out like an after-hours ballad re-imagined by Wally Badarou and For Every Window There's a Curtain is coloured by the blue-lit haze of an Eventide warped tenor saxophone. Three albums in, the voice of Alice Merida Richards is more compelling and expressive than ever. The glacial deadpan of previous records has given way to a more candid, self-possessed delivery, showing an appreciation for the humour and tragedy innate in the downtown Arcadia of Laurie Anderson, Robert Ashley or even Lynn Goldsmith's Will Powers. It's with this voice that Richards outlines a simple ideality that fortifies the entirety of Ecstatic Arrow - inequality pervades, destructive behaviours are inherited and each subsequent generation has to reconcile the debts of its precursor - yet a space exists within ourselves and each other that

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  • Format: Vinyl
  • Blue Color Vinyl
  • Includes Zine
  • Genre: Electronic
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Track Listing:

A1        Be Released
A2        The Second Shift
A3        Glorious Idea
A4        Relativity
A5        For Every Window There's A Curtain
B1        The Female Genius
B2        Eight Hours Don't Make A Day
B3        A Sister
B4        Pale Burnt Lake
B5        Seasons Reversed

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