Dorothea Paas // Think Of Mist LP

カナダ・トロントのシンガーソングライターDorothea Paasが、2024年11月にトロントのインディーポップレーベルTelephone Explosion Recordsからリリースしたレコードです。

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Ask us for digital files. 12" black vinyl.

Tracklist:

1. My Hand Creates Ripples On The Surface Of The Water
2. Autumn Roses 04:15
3. Night Picture
4. Diver 02:50
5. Maybe I'll Fade
6. Made Of Mist
7. Whatever That Means
8. Resolve
9. No Metaphor
10. Locked

Text excerpt by Emma Healey, via the label:

"Think of Mist is Paas’s sophomore album, following 2021’s Polaris-longlisted Anything Can’t Happen - “one of the most stirring and emotionally resonant break-up albums of recent years” (Uncut). Widely praised for its emotional resonance and lush sonic landscape, Anything showcased the talent that has made Paas a fixture of Toronto’s music scene for over a decade - both as the leader of her own band, and as a vocalist and guitarist for a constellation of groups including U.S. Girls, Jennifer Castle and Shabason & Krgovich.

Think of Mist is an instruction: a playful guided meditation for the listener as they enter 32 thoroughly cohesive, yet surprise-filled, minutes of music. On this album, as on Anything, Paas’s lyrics braid emotional vulnerability with subtle, disarming wit; her crystal-clear voice, honed in childhood opera choir and church bands, forms a counterpoint with her experimental, autodidactic approach to instrumentation, which can travel from folk to math rock in a single song. (Paas came of age as a guitarist in a small-town DIY scene rife with heavy shredders like Paul Saulnier of P.S. I Love You, who contributes guitar and bass to this album.)

But Think of Mist is new territory. In the years since Anything’s release, Paas began writing arrangements for Badge Époque Ensemble and Marker Starling. Writing in those groups’ jazz-, prog- and psychedelia-inflected styles led Paas to give her own songs the same treatment. Paas composed a batch of new songs on her mother’s classical guitar, then built them out with the same kind of intricate, prismatic arrangements she’d been writing for other musicians.

The result is an album that is lushly textured and sonically unique - turning from sprawling experimentation to unabashedly catchy bops and back again. Lyrically, these are “love songs” that move beyond typical romance into broader philosophies of desire, seeking the freedom that comes from accepting the necessary mysteries of love and life. Paas grapples with themes of ambivalence, the darker side of desire, and surrender. She pushes her voice in new directions, too: screaming Kate Bush-style through the background of a ballad, or, inspired by Alice Damon’s windy soundscapes, layering soft harmonies on top of each other until they become a wall of sound..."

Artist : Dorothea Paas

Label : Telephone Explosion Records

CAT no : TER120