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La Nouvelle Musique release mesmerizing new single ‘The Mirror’!
“There is a purity and beauty to this music that shines a light” – UNCUT
“A potent new pairing” – MOJO
London based duo, La Nouvelle Musique, mix psyche folk elements with an ethereal vocal style that falls somewhere between Vashti Bunyan, Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star) and Nico.
Made up of husband-and-wife Joanna Beck and Ian de Silva (formerly of the band Silver), the baroque orchestration on some of La Nouvelle Musique’s songs also reflects a big screen aesthetic. Singer/Bass Player – Joanna is also a composer and performance artist who creates electro acoustic music, sonic art, and has scored for theatre and film.
Their forthcoming self-titled debut album, which follows their recent acclaimed ‘Premonitions’ EP, is a sumptuous and haunting collection of deeply effecting tracks that drips with nostalgic mysticism. Strings weave around delicate acoustic picking and soft piano in opener and the first single from the album ‘The Mirror’ as Joanna’s glacial vocals hypnotise the listener into a trance.
“The overall theme of the album is literally the movement of time and how ten minutes can seem like an hour or just a matter of seconds”, explains Joanna. “It also touches on how life experiences are subjective and unique to everyone. Many of the songs were written after watching the Jim Jarmusch film ‘Down By Law’, with melodies we imagined could work well over the closing credits to that movie.”
Production wise La Nouvelle Musique work as a self-contained unit, writing, recording and producing their music at Berwick Street Studios in Soho London, where Ultravox recorded ‘Vienna’ and The Sex Pistols made their version of ‘My Way’.
The album will be released on vinyl on 30th June via the renowned psychedelic indie label Fruits de Mer Records, known for their releases by The Chemistry Set, Damo Suzuki, Sendelica, and many more, with a digital release to follow on 1st August.
Upcoming Live Dates
Mon – 7 July – 7pm The Green Note, London.
Cosmos Ray’s debut solo album, The More We Live, doesn’t so much announce itself as it slowly envelops you. After years spent building sonic bridges across Chicago’s experimental underground, Ray steps out of the margins with a 19-track opus that feels both highly curated and defiantly unpolished — a contradiction that ends up being the album’s most compelling feature.
The record’s architecture is unusual in today’s streaming-first landscape: long, nonlinear, meditative. It opens in a haze of ambient swells and emotional density, and refuses to loosen its grip. What emerges is a deeply personal exploration of grief, identity, and rebirth, filtered through a sonic palette that blurs genres to the point of irrelevance. There’s hip-hop grit here, yes — but also the texture of post-rock, the elasticity of dub, and the patient pulse of ambient minimalism. Cosmos Ray isn’t interested in clean edges or easy hooks; this is music as process.
At the center of the record is a willingness to sit in discomfort. The production feels intentionally raw at moments, pulling the listener into the messy, nonlinear space of personal transformation. Rather than smoothing over emotional spikes, Ray allows vulnerability to lead — both in voice and in arrangement. That choice won’t work for every listener. The album occasionally loses momentum in its more meditative stretches, but even those lulls feel like part of a larger, necessary ritual.
The six interludes labeled “Recall” offer brief moments of stillness — or maybe confrontation. They act as checkpoints in a longer journey of self-interrogation, asking the listener to slow down and look inward. The effect is cumulative: by the album’s end, you don’t feel like you’ve heard a debut — you feel like you’ve witnessed an unmasking.
The More We Live is not a record made for the algorithm. It resists your attention span and demands your full presence. In doing so, Cosmos Ray has created something rare: a debut album that prioritizes emotional truth over polish, offering no easy answers, only real ones.
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