New Album Releases: EXIT SIMULATION (Niecy Blues)

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Artist:
Niecy Blues

Genre:
R&B
Soul

Total Time:
41:35

Record Label:
kranky

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music

Release Date
November 10, 2023




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Product Description: South Carolina singer and producer Niecy Blues describes her songwriting process like an undertow: "I feel a strange pull, and let it carry me, following swirling leaves... whole days roll by, forgetting about the body." Their full-length debut, Exit Simulation, captures this sense of deep-rooted divination, cycling between simmering ballads, ghosted R&B, downtempo gospel, and looped vocal improvisations-often within the same track. The title is taken from a science fiction novel she read during the purgatory of the pandemic, alluding to a dimensional ideation of departure-"the permission to imagine leaving." Recorded in her current home of Charleston, she characterizes the album's mood in terms both reflective and raw: an exploration of things suppressed, foundations beginning to crack, "talking myself off a ledge." The music of Niecy Blues transposes reverie and reckoning into emotive devotionals of keys, guitar, bass, synth, and bewitched voice, steeped in sacred atmospheres gleaned from a youth spent in a religious Oklahoma household: "My first experience with ambient music was church-slow songs of worship, with delay on the guitar... even if you don't believe, you feel something."

TRACK LIST:

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1 . 1111 . (02:31)

2 . The Nite B4 . (02:57)

3 . U Care (06:07)

4 . Violently Rooted (03:50)

5 . Exit Simulation (03:51)

6 . Exits (01:42)

7 . Soma (05:15)

8 . Messages From Above (00:54)

9 . Lament (02:12)

10 . Violently Rooted Reprise (01:44)

11 . The Architect (03:40)

12 . Analysis Paralysis (03:48)

13 .Cascade (03:09)

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