Page 2 - Ecstatic Arrow News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Cathartic, abstract and certainly treading off the beaten path.

It isn’t immediately obvious that  private LIFE, Virginia Wing’s fourth album, is their most engaging album to date. Anyone might think it’s ‘just’  Ecstatic Arrow Mk. 2 – and neither artist nor listener would be to blame, given how the Manchester group’s 2018 release represents such a strident leap forward that it would be inadvisable to do anything too off-piste for the follow-up. The two LPs are linked by a similar strain of ‘fourth world’ production, covertly masking what is essentially pop in the avant tradition of Peter Gabriel. Vocalist Alice Merida Richards’ spe...

Patrick Clarke , January 29th, 2021 12:00 The new year brings a continuation of old miseries, but a resurgence of extraordinarily good music. Here's our guide to the best albums and tracks of a particularly strong month I'm not sure why, but in a year so far as disastrous as the last, in which musicians' fortunes continue to plummet to the point that total collapse looms as a real possibility, the art they've been releasing sounds stronger than ever. From Sleaford Mods' blistering career-best new album, to anti-colonialist duo Divide And Dissolve's unbelievably powerful cascades of crushing ...