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。 レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more Kranky releases available at Tobira. ------------------------- 12" black vinyl. Tracklist: 1111 02:30 The Nite B4 02:57 U Care 06:06 Violently Rooted 03:50 Exit Simulation 03:51 Exits 01:42 Soma 05:14 Messages From Above 00:53 Lament 02:12 Violently Rooted Reprise 01:43 The Architect 03:40 Analysis Paralysis 03:48 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
