Mechanical Bride - Living With Ants

Mechanical Bride - 25-year-old British singer/songwriter Lauren Doss delivers her first full-length... inventive, cinematic songs that confidently expand the stark canvas of her earlier EP's with colorful swaths of instrumental arrangements, some bold, some subdued // Release: Living With Ants (June 6, Transgressive/U.K.) // Quote: "I wanted to find the beauty and colour from dark places that exist inside and outside of ourselves, the title 'Living With Ants' means learning to co-exist alongside niggling issues and worries that we maybe create for ourselves." // Sounds like: elements of the U.K. nu-folk songwriting movement shaken thoroughly with big dollops of sweetly embellished art/pop // What we like: lead track "Colour Of Fire", where odd time signatures, lush strings, a haunting piano refrain and Doss' hushed vocals create an eerily hypnotic atmosphere...Q's review line: "as unsettling as an unexplained mist"...

Mechanical Bride - "Colour of Fire" (from Living With Ants) (free download)

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