This wonderfully absorbing, otherworldly second album from the Irish musician from Connemara in Galway, is a fusion awash with slow, gentle, misty shoegaze and folk, and rewards multiple listens with its many sonic textures and atmospheric layers in what feels like expansive celebration of solitude. Inspired by the Irish countryside, field recordings can just be heard amongst stylistic traces of pop, trip-hop, drone and other oeuvres, and particularly of Cocteau Twins Blue Bell Knoll and Heaven or Las Vegas. Opener Réalt dawning with birdsong, harp and ambient beauty. Lyrically there’s a dreamy curiosity at play, such as “Sometimes the sky / Invites me to truly be / Myself more than it could actually be,” on the guitar-coloured Trip. There’s a classic shoegazey, woozy breathy thrum to Projections (“dreaming of different paths … projections of you in my head”). The evocative Garden brings a heavier, stormier backdrop and drums, but among the standouts is the deliciously unfolding clip-clop beat and multi-layered sounds and melody of Stonefly, and the gentle of lapping of closer October Moon, which samples the sound of waves. A gallery of subtle colours and sounds emerging from a swirly, lovely musical mist. Out on 4AD.
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