{"title":"Lucy Gooch","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"rushing-ep-expanded-edition","title":"Rushing EP (Expanded Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing Lucy Gooch’s acclaimed ‘Rain’s Break’, her first release on Fire Records earlier this year, the artist’s acclaimed debut EP ‘Rushing’ is revisited with new artwork and a brand new track, ‘Orthione’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Rushing’ in its original shorter five-track incarnation was heralded as a touchstone beneath the cascading torrent of modern times and an oasis for turbulent times. An intimate collection of songs built around Lucy’s emotive vocals and unique ambient dream pop, the newly added stand-out track ‘Orthione’ trips into the esoteric world of Laurie Anderson and Philip Glass; here her voice is the grounding force that travels to a space that heals and grows.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fire Records","offers":[{"title":"Black | 12\"","offer_id":50483208814923,"sku":"1136244","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c6c00798-a791-4c43-8770-cd38f778e531_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727562767"},{"product_id":"rains-break-ep","title":"Rains Break EP","description":"\u003cp\u003eLucy Gooch’s music is a beautiful ethereal fog; like hearing a subliminal echo of Kate Bush on a fading tape loop, masked by an internal wall of sound that vibrates with the hum of everyday life. The \u003ci\u003eRain’s Break\u003c\/i\u003e EP is her first release for Fire, following the much-touted\u003ci\u003e Rushing \u003c\/i\u003eEP.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the early technicolour films of Powell and Pressburger, Lucy uses synthesisers and vocal layering to concentrate elements of each film’s score and narrative into songs which move through different moods of yearning and renewal. So, it is amidst 1940’s austerity that these films were an escape, an over-rich backdrop of possibilities. A snatched piece of dialogue, the film’s score, the crackle of uncertainty all succumbs to the layered ambience of Lucy’s music as she traces moods of yearning and renewal on \u003ci\u003eRain’s Break\u003c\/i\u003e EP.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally from Norfolk, Lucy studied Fine Art and later moved to Bristol to join the emerging ambient scene there - gradually developing her writing and finally releasing her debut \u003ci\u003eRushing\u003c\/i\u003e EP in early 2020. Over the past year, she’s dipped into a wealth of long gone celluloid as the basis for a filmic journey, a five song EP that relives formative movies in her unique take on ecclesiastical pop. This is music that takes you places, shifts focus, paints large canvases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fire Records","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50511459156299,"sku":"1118030","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50511460303179,"sku":"1118029","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ce617d83-23b8-44d7-9113-c25bce2395e2_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727889617"},{"product_id":"desert-window","title":"Desert Window","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn her debut album, Lucy Gooch stays true to her electronic foundations, while incorporating more acoustic instrumentation and digging deeper into her folk roots through songwriting. But at the heart of Lucy’s music is her rapturous vocal, with which she has experimented more than ever over the course of her first full-length.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMany of the pieces on \u003cem\u003eDesert Window\u003c\/em\u003e started out as vocal improvisations from which she pulled a narrative. Taking cues from the incantatory chanting found in middle English poetry such as ‘The Names of the Hare’, as well as the prescient imagery in contemporary works like ‘The Hearing Trumpet’ by Leonora Carrington (1974). “To a larger extent, this became an experiment in placing my voice in a more narrative way, while remaining oblique,” Gooch explains. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile her previous work could be compared to drawn-out landscapes punctuated with moments of romance and radiance, this album feels grounded in materiality and the everyday. Gooch’s voice is at times strident, while elsewhere restrained and broken. “I lost connection to my voice and then had to rediscover it, which was exhilarating. There were these bursts of energy where I’d be messing around and occasionally stumble upon something”. There are hushed melodies and exhausted squalls, creating dissonance and space.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe result is an atmospheric balance between Kate Bush and Cocteau Twins harmonies, Vangelis major chords, and a juxtaposition of folk ambience reminiscent of the offset madrigals of The Third Ear Band and Italian cult film composers Goblin. It is a complex and elegant album, an all-consuming series of songs that reach into jazz, electronica and classical song construction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor fans of Juliana Barwick, Kate Bush, Julia Holter, Bjork, Oneohtrix Point Never, Beth Gibbons, Enya, Ana Roxanne, Cocteau Twins \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fire Records","offers":[{"title":"LP - Marbled","offer_id":51358841995595,"sku":"R8380-5530","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - White","offer_id":51358842028363,"sku":"R8380-1785","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Marbled \/ Signed Print","offer_id":51358842061131,"sku":"R8380-7032","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/LucyGooch-DesertWindow.jpg?v=1740753008"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/lucy-gooch.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}