It feels like ages since we last came across new material by Polish-born and UK-based NFOP favorite Ela Orleans, whose wonderful Mars Is Heaven LP made 2011 so much better. Good news then that the lady is back with more of the modest and tender, slightly eerie chamber pop that has become her signature in the past year. High Moon Low Sun is the name of Orleans' new eleven-song collection, an effort that easily lives up to her past output.
Below, watch the video for "Elegy", a gently shuffling piece of sad-eyed cabaret based on lyrics by Sara Ellen Lessard, an appropriately subdued and melancholic collage assembled and arranged by Nattymari.
High Moon Low Sun is out now on cassette via Clan Destine Records. Get it over here. Edition of 75.
Listen to another cut from High Moon Low Sun below, the elegant, blissful "In Spring":
Alongside Ela Orleans' effort, Clan Destine is dropping two other very recommended tapes these days, Cattle Border by doom pop project German Army, and the self-titled cassette by Skylines, the rightfully lauded joint venture by Party Trash, Raw Moans and Top Girls. Listen to samples below and get both tapes at Clan Destine's webshop over here.
It feels like ages since we last came across new material by Polish-born and UK-based NFOP favorite Ela Orleans, whose wonderful Mars Is Heaven LP made 2011 so much better. Good news then that the lady is back with more of the modest and tender, slightly eerie chamber pop that has become her signature in the past year. High Moon Low Sun is the name of Orleans' new eleven-song collection, an effort that easily lives up to her past output.
Below, watch the video for "Elegy", a gently shuffling piece of sad-eyed cabaret based on lyrics by Sara Ellen Lessard, an appropriately subdued and melancholic collage assembled and arranged by Nattymari.
High Moon Low Sun is out now on cassette via Clan Destine Records. Get it over here. Edition of 75.
Listen to another cut from High Moon Low Sun below, the elegant, blissful "In Spring":
Alongside Ela Orleans' effort, Clan Destine is dropping two other very recommended tapes these days, Cattle Border by doom pop project German Army, and the self-titled cassette by Skylines, the rightfully lauded joint venture by Party Trash, Raw Moans and Top Girls. Listen to samples below and get both tapes at Clan Destine's webshop over here.