Mechanical Bride - Living With Ants

Living With Ants, Mechanical Bride’s debut album, is a defiant step up and sees her song writing blossom from the stark, black and white songs on Part II, into fully formed techni-colour flourishes. “I wanted to find the beauty and colour from dark places that exist inside and outside of ourselves, the title ‘Living With Ants’ means learning to co-exist alongside niggling issues and worries that we maybe create for ourselves”. Living With Ants is a stronger, more vibrant record and is testament to how much Lauren has grown as an artist. Living With Ants make up a patchwork of tales and fables and, much like the haunted fairy tales on Part II, the new album is rooted in escapism and fantasy. There is a strong animal theme on the album, with some of the songs and even the album title, having animals in its name. As with the opening track ‘Magpie’, which begins with a sweeping piano, joined by Lauren’s gloriously stunning voice, reminiscent of singers form a bygone era. Laced with sighing strings, soft trumpets and lightly brushed drums, it slowly builds to a beautiful crescendo.  Upcoming single ‘Colour Of Fire’ out on 4 April, is a stand out track, with Lauren’s voice once again tugging at your heartstrings as she sings around a swirl of piano and strings.

Although Mechanical Bride shares her name with a dark American science-fiction play by Fritz Lieber Jnr, the sinister nature of Part II EPs has been transformed like a butterfly, into the fully formed songs with lush arrangements, filled with colour and playful lyrics found on Living With Ants . Everything on the album was recorded using vintage valve equipment, which contributes even more to that fantastical sound, like that from a lost and forgotten world.

TRACKLISTING:

1.Magpie
2.Young gold (You Stole My Heart)
3.Colour Of Fire
4.Peach Wolves
5.By Night
6.Lakes
7.To The Fight
8.Walk Into The Forest
9.Demons
10.BOOM! (Shine A Light)

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