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Stumbleine releases hypnotic new single ‘Cinderhaze’
Cinderhaze, the second single from UK producer Stumbleine’s forthcoming eighth album. Deleted Scene, envelopes you in a gorgeous pool of sound that shifts and pulls its emotional weight in cyclic waves.
Deleted Scene, overflows with beautiful nostalgia-tinged electronica. The album is steeped with cloud-like beauty, with opener and recent single I Can Stop Anytime I Like fusing addictive sampled vocals with soft, glassy guitars, as if a reflecting pool of the listeners’ memories.
Elsewhere on the album, Ursa Minor Sleeps Forever is fittingly sleepy, circling soft slow synth arpeggios in a dreamy haze, a sound built upon by Somnia to an epiphany-like string bed, never straying too far from Stumbleine’s serene haven of melodic grace, while on Catastrophette, Stumbleine crafts a more dramatic and poignant web of sound, as if running through the memories created by the rest of Deleted Scene.
‘Stumbleine’ is the alias of Peter Cooper. With roots in the UK post rock scene, the reclusive producer began blending slow dream-like pop with fractured lo-fi beats as Stumbleine in 2012. Melancholic rnb vocals ebb and flow above submerged guitar ballads. Sand blasted samples intertwine with broken beats to create music with a nostalgic fragile warmth. Stumbleine is known for a DIY ethic, releasing music directly to fans or via the independent label Monotreme Records.’
The new album as a whole is an escape to a dream-state of Stumbleine’s making, captivating, yet familiar, and completely enveloping. According to Peter, “Deleted scene refers to the memories that play over and over inside your own head, replaying hazy copies of hazy copies that evolve into a bittersweet fever dream. Everybody has their own unique collection of deleted scenes slowly distorting and fading away.”Deleted Scene will be released on June 14th digitally, as a CD in a colour printed slipcase cover and as a limited vinyl edition of 300 copies on 180 g white vinyl, which can be pre-ordered here: https://monotremerecords.limitedrun.com/products/776439
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Sara Lew releases fragile and powerful new album “Loud” plus new live video for “Echoes”
“An album infused with ethereal guitar lines, soaring vocal passages, and raw, emotive expressions”– WONDERLAND MAGAZINE
A fragile and, at the same time, powerful energy is the overall signature of the new Sara Lew album, which is a result of the meeting between the experiences of her life in recent years and the musical primordial power that characterizes the very special universe of the Danish indie artist.
The album represents Sara Lew’s characteristic style, but at the same time has new delicate threads which move into the atmospheric, where bare acoustic guitar gives way to vocals and lyrics gaining strength in the recognizable scratches that crises and grief leave behind – and which you as the audience intuitively recognize. “LOUD” is Sara’s musical exclamation mark after a period when life simply overshadowed the music in all its raw reality and is about the big themes that characterize the life lived.
She says, “I have found strength and new creative power in my experiences as an adult woman, having struggled through the last few years. The very special vulnerability, combined with almost primal power, I hope people feel in their souls, when they meet LOUD”.
“LOUD” is about encounters with the past and with the unconscious taboos that Sara as an adult woman had to confront because, despite her powerlessness and grief, she insisted on being a role model for her children. And to take care of the love and care, which became her delicate light and strength, in the darkest moments; a light that gained warmth and flared up in a redemptive and playful approach to the creation of the album. “Therefore, the ambition with LOUD is also that I now reach out, despite vulnerability, in the meeting with the audience in the very special community and in the unforgettable magical moments that live concerts contain between the stage and the hall.”, explains Sara.
Born to an English mother and Danish father and raised in Roskilde, Sara Lew is aka Sara Lewis Sørensen is now living in Copenhagen. Sara is an electric guitarist, educated at the rhythmic Music conservatorium in Copenhagen. She has received lessons from a number of jazz musicians in New York, including Ben Monder (David Bowie – Blackstar). Throughout her career, Sara has continuously developed her great talent within jazz and improvisational music, alternative rock and as an indie-folk-rock musician in a large number of constellations and now stands as a strong lead, on both guitar and vocals on “LOUD”.
The album complements 2024’s previous single releases ‘Did you ever notice’, ‘Faces’, ‘Out of Nowhere’ and ‘Shady Light’, which were received with enthusiasm in both the UK and Denmark in media such as Gaffa.dk, Good Because Danish, Side33.dk, Fame Magazine, Amazing Radio, Louder Than War Radio and more. The music is played and arranged by Sara Lew (vocals and guitar), Anders Filipsen (keyboard/synth) and Jeppe Gram (drums). Recorded by and in collaboration with sound and studio technicians Troels Bech Jessen and Casper Nyvang Rask. Produced by Sara Lew, and mixed and co-produced by Nis Bysted (Iceage & Choir of Young Believers), with mastering by Emil Thomsen.
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