Claire Rousay - A Softer Focus (Black Vinyl)

Claire Rousay - A Softer Focus (Black Vinyl)Experimental musician Claire Rousay and visual artist Dani Toral have been in each others orbit since young adulthood in San Antonio, but it took a decade for them to find A Softer Focus. Before Rousay had put her compositional gray matter to task for the albums music, she knew she wanted to work with Toral being familiar with her past work centering her Mexican heritage. Torals vibrant color palette and reinterpretations of comfort in oneself and the

Simple and unadorned cascading arpeggios of sweet guitar notes and rippling piano

in full stride yet slow-ing down to nurture songs in new ways

"My sister held me close and whispered to my bleeding head/You are the son of a motherf*cker" (from "Nimrod's Son")

Their debut album Bright Green Field (2021) arrived as the world was starting to open up after the pandemic and they broke into the top 5 in the UK chart

for their refreshing new chapter

about the best way to convey and connect and get closer

The debut Moin album

signature harmonies

Burial finishes 2022 with a follow up to ‘ANTIDAWN’

as her parents lived long-distance for most of her youth

but never quite… The same could be said of the journey these four musicians underwent to get to their third full-length album

Presented in deluxe packaging complete with a 24-page photo booklet