Beautiful mix by Kevin Press of The Moderns up now on Mixcloud with lots of ambient, drone, and experimental jazz to tickle your eardrums (+ my song “Cosmonaut Chorus” off Farewell, Doomed Planet!). Listen below or over on the blog.
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Harm on Is This Thing On
Nick Tann selected “Harm” as one of his “cream of the crop” tracks on Is This Thing On? this month. Listen here!
Harm on Trust The Doc
Thanks to Neil from Trust the Doc for reviewing my new single “Harm” off upcoming album Farewell, Doomed Planet! An excerpt:
…the ambient soundscape gradually grows in volume and intensity, almost but not quite engulfing the voices before it judders to a halt one second short of three minutes (so radio programmers, take note – perfect length for airplay). So another fine track by this versatile artist.
Full review up on the blog (also a review of my buddy Xqui!).
Departure on Adventures in Sound and Music
Joseph Stannard, Deputy Editor for The Wire, played “Departure” off upcoming album Farewell, Doomed Planet! on the Adventures in Sound and Music show on Resonance FM this Thursday. Catch the show on Mixcloud and revel in the Alex Cox/Moviedrome vibe!
Harm on I Heart Noise
A huge thank you to I Heart Noise for premiering “Harm” off the upcoming album Farewell, Doomed Planet! They also gave it a really nice write-up on the blog:
[Harm’s] sole focus is Atmosphere with a capital A, one of utter coldness and desolation – the ethereal/melancholic vocals being a cherry on top of the proverbial cake. While it may not cause millions to change their mind about climate it certainly moves you in a way that any really well crafted song should.
Announcing…FAREWELL, DOOMED PLANET!
Coming October 25…
Departure 2019 in Cassette Gods
Beautiful review of the Departure 2019 tape on Cassette Gods this weekend:
“Kelly brings her considerable chops as a singer, a songwriter, and a mischievous experimental imp to the table, delighting everybody in earshot with magnificent synthesizers and baroque arrangements, recalling Vangelis and Tangerine Dream and Enya and Björk, but also the sweeping buzz and interjected interruption of our greatest generation of outsider talent.”
Full review over on the site. Thank you, Ryan!
More What Penumbras/ShopLand World reviews
Our supermarkets may be small, but our musical ambition knows no bounds! The Strategic Tape Reserve compilation ShopLand World: Music for a Discovery Park of Miniature Supermarkets has continued receiving favorable press, including some alarmingly non-sarcastic banter on the Tabs Out Cassette Podcast. “What Penumbras,” my contribution, also received some praise in Pat Padua’s Spectrum Culture 3.2 star review of the album:
“This isn’t a trip to the dazzling cornucopia of the modern grocery store, but a descent into a commercial hellscape, with a quick succession of shimmering blips suggesting a nightmarish aural vision of the checkout aisle.”
Padua also calls the album a “a dense and frequently unsettling anthology.” Read the full review on the site!
Want more? Here are a couple more reviews of the compilation:
Lost In A Sea of Sound
Cassette Gods
M4DMV on Bandcloud, What Penumbras on Dublin Digital
Bandcloud, aka Aidan Hanratty, had some kind words to say about Music for the DMV and my one year recap. Here’s an excerpt:
“It’s a concept album about visiting the Department of Motor Vehicles, and it mirrors the agitation and unease many feel there. It’s clubby, ambient, expansive and weird. I like it.”
Read the full review here along with words on John Beltran, Cloak, Pamcy, Forest Management, Litt, Oracula, Juarta Putra, D. Strange and Golden Chorale.
Bandcloud also played my song “What Penumbras” off Strategic Tape Reserve’s ShopLand World: Music for a Discovery Park of Miniature Supermarkets on his Dublin Digital Radio show last week; you can hear the full show, including tracks by Kings of Tomorrow, Diplo, Low Normal, Mischa Lively, Ten Years Lost, and more, over on Mixcloud:
8 Weeks on The Wire
HUGE thanks to Gated Canal Community Radio for including my “8 Weeks” in this month’s The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music charts! The full issue is available by subscription (or maybe through your local library) here, or pop over to Twitter for a screenshot of the list.
Elizabeth Joan Kelly 