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MARIA SOMERVILLE
By the time Irish musician Maria Somerville started writing Luster, her landmark label debut for4AD, she had lived away from her native Connemara for quite some time. Having grown up amongst the wild, mountainous terrain of Galway’s rural west coast, she later relocated to Dublin, where she patiently developed an atmospheric dream pop signature inspired by the landscape of her youth – a spellbinding soundworld of gusting ambient electronics, ethereal guitar strums, sparse percussion, and hushed lyrical vignettes. In 2019, this culminated in All My People, a self-released LP steeped in reverb, nostalgia and a yearning for home that won praise from discerning press and listeners alike.
It was upon returning to Connemara, in a house near where she was raised overlooking one of the country’s largest lakes, Lough Corrib, that work commenced on the songs that would eventually become Luster, an album that illuminates Somerville’s music anew, pushing it forward in both sound and spirit. Where All My People conveyed memories and melancholic longing with misty slowcore balladry, these 12 tracks show us an artist who’s more assured in the path her life has taken, and the person she’s become in the process. As she sings in ‘Trip’ –“I can see more clearly than I could before. I know now what’s true for me.”
COLLE
Colle, the moniker of New York experimental musician Maya McGrory, has released Montalvo, a collection of songs that return to her past, offering a perspective of multiple lives lived at once. This reflection contrasts with her present, exploring how these early experiences shape and rebuild her understanding of connection and healing. Initially an experiment in electronic music production, Colle became McGrory’s defining musical voice with the release of her first EP For Now. Her music invites listeners into immersive emotional landscapes, where expansive glacial synths, strings, and driving beats converge, enriched by her sincere and alluring vocal delivery.