{"title":"Frances Chang","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"psychedelic-anxiety-3","title":"Psychedelic Anxiety","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecorded by Chang and engineer Andrea Schiavelli, featuring a cast of revered NYC DIY players, including Schiavelli (Eyes of Love) and Liza Winter (Birthing Hips), Psychedelic Anxiety relishes in the refining of aesthetic, in the electricity of improvisation, in balancing bleakness with humor. It embodies an idiosyncratic genre Chang calls slacker prog -- offbeat, but brimming with spiritual and emotional resonance. The record infuses artifacts of the mundane with otherworldliness-- even the love songs live more in the realm of fantasy (or horror) than the romantic. The psychic twin and mirror image of Chang's 2022 debut full-length Support Your Local Nihilist, Psychedelic Anxiety by comparison is less urgent, leaving space for more nuance and storytelling. Together, these albums represent a new cycle of creativity for Chang, a reset to zero.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ramp","offers":[{"title":"Orange LP","offer_id":50531239887179,"sku":"2175498","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50531239788875,"sku":"2175492","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_9bb49444_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728100736"},{"product_id":"i-can-feel-the-waves","title":"I Can Feel the Waves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA boundary-pushing musician and multi-media artist from Brooklyn, New York, Frances Chang disrupts accepted reality through her unique and enchanting compositions. Chang’s songs are an exercise in communication, probing the tension between idiosyncratic personal experience and the drive to understand, and be understood, through a collective language. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor “I Can Feel the Waves,” Chang’s new single and debut on RVNG Intl., a piano-centric melody is ornamented with primitive electronics and poetic vocals. The track boldly demonstrates Chang’s strength for unconventional yet contagious songwriting, and pioneers a genre the artist refers to as “slacker prog”: roomy and playful, offbeat and occasionally jarring, brimming with spiritual and emotional resonance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe b-side, “Marry,” is a rollicking yet laid-back composition, with undaunted wobbly kicks bubbling under pianistic textures until a dialogue, acted out between Chang and Sylvia Gorelick, takes the foreground in the final moments of the track. As the instrumental carries its freewheeling pulse forward, the conversation, inspired by films like Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret and Catherine Breillat’s Fat Girl!, along with Broken Social Scene’s “Anthems for a Seventeen-Year Old Girl,” turns toward the relationship between internal subjectivity and the external necessity of “staying small.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhere is Frances headed from here? A piano is at the center, synths and strings swelling around its shoulders. A little less tension, a lot more production. Some shadows will be encountered, some forgotten skeletons unearthed. Music excavated from the subtler, deeper layers of cerebral and shared experiences. Music that is truly its own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rvng Intl","offers":[{"title":"7\" - Black","offer_id":56432629580107,"sku":"R3492-4657","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2000x2000bb_65ba2d5e-e58d-4333-9bd7-bbdd760391b8.jpg?v=1769871030"},{"product_id":"been-thinking-bout-confession","title":"been thinking bout confession","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ebeen thinking bout confession\u003c\/em\u003e, the third studio album by musician and producer Frances Chang, is a synth-tinged experimental pop excavation of the self and the vast unknown depths it contains. Largely written on a hundred-year-old baby grand piano, the album situates the unbridled emotion of Chang’s DIY roots within a complex and poetic sonic landscape that interweaves orchestral arrangements with idiosyncratic, almost sculptural, electronic and analog interventions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout \u003cem\u003ebeen thinking bout confession\u003c\/em\u003e, the lines between truth and untruth are blurred as the album’s “protagonist” alternately approaches and retreats from a clearer self-understanding. Floaty, alien vocals can turn crystal-clear and piercing in an instant, just as irreverent electronic arrangements can erupt amidst what began as a straightforward piano ballad. Throughout, this sense of experimentation, dislocation and possibility gives the album an exhilarating, inquisitive edge: like the moon reflecting on the ocean at night, the silvery surface of \u003cem\u003ebeen thinking bout confession\u003c\/em\u003e belies its darker depths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough \u003cem\u003ebeen thinking bout confession\u003c\/em\u003e is sonically indebted to the extraterrestrial beauty of Bjork and the retrofuturistic dreaminess of Broadcast, Chang also cites less likely influences like Chet Baker, Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach in forming the emotional backbone of the album. For the most part setting aside her usual guitar, Chang wrote these 11 songs on piano, an instrument she refers to as “the feminine root of my psyche.” The album’s uncanny meld of unconventionally deployed spring reverbs, older compressors and tube preamps against a distinctly contemporary digital backdrop forms a listening experience that seems to expand across the past, present and future at once.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rvng Intl","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":57457948885323,"sku":"R9827-4833","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/FrancesChang-beenthinkingboutconfession.jpg?v=1779960150"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/frances-chang.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}