Maria Somerville - LusterBy the time Irish musician Maria Somerville started writing Luster, her landmark label debut for 4AD, she had lived away from her native Connemara for quite some time. Having grown up amongst the wild, mountainous terrain of Galways rural west coast, she later relocated to Dublin, where she patiently developed an atmospheric dream pop signature inspired by the landscape of her youth a spellbinding sound world of gusting ambient electronics, ethereal

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the beauty has touched even him: The final words on an emotional

”Classic Rock

I scratched the surface initially with electric bass

moody and alluring

Edwyn Collins

written by him in the period after Nature Boy

before it was over

And that‰۪s right where she wants you: Vulnerable

The Silver Jews' sixth album cover - wherein three stuffed Babar toys climb onto a rocky outcrop - mysteriously and trickily relates to the record's tales of virtue gone to seed

which “recall the Wes Anderson scores of Mark Mothersbaugh or the cinematographic swells of American composer Jherek Bischoff” (Bandcamp)

III is the pillar of unity and singularity