Ltd MARBLE Vinyl, DL card is for Indie Stores Only. 'Desert Window' is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed EPs 'Rushing' and 'Rain's Break'. Live appearances at SXSW, Glastonbury, Green Man, The Great Escape, Rewire, Sea Change. Plays on Iggy Pop's BBC 6 Music show, a 'beautiful piece of music'. On her debut album, Lucy Gooch stays true to her electronic foundations, while incorporating more acoustic instrumentation and digging deeper into her folk roots through songwriting. But at the heart of Lucy's music is her rapturous vocal, with which she has experimented more than ever over the course of her first full-length. Many of the pieces on 'Desert Window' started out as vocal improvisations from which she pulled a narrative. Taking cues from the incantatory chanting found in middle English poetry such as 'The Names of the Hare', as well as the prescient imagery in contemporary works like 'The Hearing Trumpet' by Leonora Carrington (1974). 'To a larger extent, this became an experiment in placing my voice in a more narrative way, while remaining oblique,' Gooch explains. While her previous work could be compared to drawn-out landscapes punctuated with moments of romance and radiance, this album feels grounded in materiality and the everyday. Gooch's voice is at times strident, while elsewhere restrained and broken. 'I lost connection to my voice and then had to rediscover it, which was exhilarating. There were these bursts of energy where I'd be messing around andTracks1~1~Like Clay1~2~Night Window (Part One)1~3~Night Window (Part Two)1~4~Keep Pulling Me In2~1~Jack Hare2~2~Clouds2~3~Our Relativity2~4~Desert WindowDetailsCatalogue Number: FIRELP678MFormat: Vinyl LPArtist: Gooch, LucyRelease Date: 06 June 2025Genre: RockLabel: FIRE RECORDSDistributor: Rocket Group
