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Artist: | Conchur White |
Title: | Conchur White Swirling Violets SEA BLUE COLOURED VINYL LP |
Released: | 19/01/2024 |
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Format: | SEA BLUE COLOURED VINYL LP |
Country | EU/US |
Barcode: | 5400863148713 |
Catalogue number: | BELLA1566V |
Store location: | pre-order |
SKU: | WLF18888 |
Condition: | BRAND NEW & SEALED |
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“I like surreal settings, but with tangible messages,” says Conchúr White. A singer songwriter from County Armagh, White navigates the dreamlike and the grounded with blissful fluency on his beautifully lambent debut album. Released through Bella Union, ‘Swirling Violets’ is allusive and intimate, unearthly yet instantly accessible:
touching on fully felt themes with grace and lightness, it’s a richly imagined album of multitudes from an instinctive talent.
As White explains it, “There wasn’t a conscious theme, though the songs operate in the same sort of space, that sense of surrealism. There’s ghosts, there’s other worlds. There’s a cosmic feeling, questions about the beginning and the end and dreams. And then there’s simpler songs, love songs about the feelings of infatuation you have when you’re young...”
A music graduate who has also worked alongside young people with mental health issues, White’s story began in bands. He played in atmospheric indie-rockers Silences before their split allowed Conchúr - pronounced Conor - to develop his solo voice at his own pace. That sense of freedom colours Conchúr’s music. On the ‘Bikini Crops’ and ‘Dreamers’ EPs, he filtered the influences of acts such as Arctic Monkeys (recent vintage) and Father John Misty into songs at once playful, referential and experiential.
With praise from SPIN, The Line of Best Fit, Under the Radar, Steve Lamacq, 6 Music and others under his belt, he has also notched up touring slots with Villagers, Billie Marten and John Grant, who complemented White’s work warmly. (“It felt genuine,” marvels White. “I mean, he didn’t need to say it...”) Meanwhile, a recent invitation to
support the mighty John Cale in concert lead to more complements from Cale’s storied bandmembers.
Collaborators on ‘Swirling Violets’ include Matt Wiggins, who mixed the album, producers Kris Platt and Danny Morgan Ball and co-writer / producer Iain Archer (‘Swirling Violets’). Finally, Brendan Jenkinson produced the closer, ‘Deadwood’, a serene drift through the ‘mystic night’ under the ‘summer’s moonlight’. An irresistible invitation to float along with White, ‘Swirling Violets’ is a magic-realist wonder from a new name to reckon with, bathed in a radiant
The Holy Death
Righteous (Why Did I Feel Like That?)
501s
Rivers
I Did Good Today
Swirling Violets
Red House Parlour
Before Ten
Fawn
The Women In The War
Deadwood
format | vinyl |
year of release | 2024 |
artist | Conchur White |
Recently In Stock | No |
Forthcoming | Yes |
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