Niecy Blues // Exit Simulation LP

アメリカ・サウスカロライナの実験R&B作家Niecy Bluesが、2023年10月に同国アンビエントレーベルKrankyからリリースしたデビューレコードです。

アンビエントR&B13曲を収録。

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12" black vinyl.

Tracklist:

1. 1111 02:30
2. The Nite B4 02:57
3. U Care 06:06
4. Violently Rooted 03:50
5. Exit Simulation 03:51
6. Exits 01:42
7. Soma 05:14
8. Messages From Above 00:53
9. Lament 02:12
10. Violently Rooted Reprise 01:43
11. The Architect 03:40
12. Analysis Paralysis 03:48
13. Cascade 03:09

Kranky:

"South Carolina singer and producer Niecy Blues describes her songwriting process like an undertow: 'I feel a strange pull, and let it carry me, following swirling leaves… whole days roll by, forgetting about the body.' Their full-length debut, Exit Simulation, captures this sense of deep-rooted divination, cycling between simmering ballads, ghosted R&B, downtempo gospel, and looped vocal improvisations – often within the same track. The title is taken from a science fiction novel she read during the purgatory of the pandemic, alluding to a dimensional ideation of departure – 'the permission to imagine leaving.'

Recorded in her current home of Charleston, she characterizes the album’s mood in terms both reflective and raw: an exploration of things suppressed, foundations beginning to crack, “talking myself off a ledge.” The music of Niecy Blues transposes reverie and reckoning into emotive devotionals of keys, guitar, bass, synth, and bewitched voice, steeped in sacred atmospheres gleaned from a youth spent in a religious Oklahoma household: 'My first experience with ambient music was church – slow songs of worship, with delay on the guitar… even if you don’t believe, you feel something.'

Artist : Niecy Blues

Label : Kranky