New Song Of The Day: Virginia Wing – St. Francis Fountain

Every day we scour the globe to bring you the best new music. Today we take you to Manchester where Virginia Wing has a new video and a new album.

The video is for the single, St. Francis Fountain and the album is private LIFE. Here’s the record company blurb with more details:

‘St. Francis Fountain’ deals with themes of loneliness and attempts at connection in both the real world and in the digital realm. It can be hard to distinguish those important real connections to the superficial ones that have a semi-anonymity when compared to those in real life and a tangible space.

“The vocals on ‘St. Francis Fountain’ are continual with an impartial surveillance – always watching, sometimes prompting or questioning, but rarely judging. Like in the way a therapist repeats your own words back to you.”

More tumultuous than its predecessor, ‘private LIFE’ knocks hard. The evolution of Virginia Wing’s sound continues to build on the broad creative flow of the last album whilst being another a vital contribution to contemporary pop. The drums are huge and playfully unquantized. Edits are both assured and heavy handed, the instrumentation lightly mediates the two and finds itself on the edge of collapse alongside them. The icy facade of Merida Richards’ words are still front and centre, but are contrasted by dense arrangements, vying for attention throughout the record.

Virginia Wing’s last record opened its arms into euphoric light, ‘private LIFE’ invites you through a door and closes it. It examines what we’re doing at night, on our own, after work. What we do to enjoy ourselves, to cope, to be together, to be alone.  It shines a dim blue light on what might be happening, causing us anxiety, stress, and desire. The act of making the music, and that this music is bright, unconfined, and joyous, speaks to the inherent therapy in the activities some humans need to actually deal with the things inside their heads. However, it doesn’t position itself in opposition to anything, nor does it seek to guide. The album was made for Virginia Wing, and now it’s for you.

‘private LIFE’ is a record examining impulse, addiction, urge and shame and was influenced by the following:

Prince, Clare Fischer, Black Secret Technology, Laurie Anderson, YMO, Scott Storch, Timbaland, Nelly Furtado, Kleenex, The Slits, Y Pants, Tina Weymouth, Lena Platonos, Jay Electronica and The Paul Institute.

Virginia Wing is Alice Merida Richards, Sam Pillay and Christopher Duffin.

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