Artist:
Me Lost Me
Genre:
Electronic
Pop/Rock
Total Time:
44:48
Record Label:
Upset The Rhythm
Stream or Buy:
CD, MP3, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
June 27, 2025
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Me Lost Me
Genre:
Electronic
Pop/Rock
Total Time:
44:48
Record Label:
Upset The Rhythm
Stream or Buy:
CD, MP3, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
June 27, 2025
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
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Product Description: Concerned with physicality, interpretations, and, yes, materiality, This Material Moment is an album akin to rummaging through a box of long-forgotten trinkets. With each song, Me Lost Me extracts something from the box and asks us to consider it from every angle. "This is an album which uses words as a material, a playful tool for experimentation, full of metaphor, abstraction and analogies." Jayne says, "it has softness and anger, humour, hope and despair, intensity of feeling in all directions expressed as textures, objects, places."
With the release of This Material Moment Me Lost Me puts into practice the automatic writing techniques she developed during a workshop with Julia Holter, and in the process has spun her music in different directions that draws on poetry, psalms and using mesostic poems and phonetic translations to generate words. "Despite the chance-based writing strategies throughout, it feels like the most emotionally raw album I've ever made," she says, likening the process to a Rorschah test which revealed things to her she wasn't expecting to express. "I wanted to hide in stories, but I saw things plainly when I tried to write." Having finished the writing process, Jayne realised that she had an unexpectedly personal album on her hands, into which her feelings of burnout and overwhelm had crept unconsciously. "Several of the songs for me express a kind of inner conflict, where you're trying to keep hope and desire and beauty and art near to your heart, to live a meaningful life, but finding that increasingly hard to hold onto in a world that's so fucked up."
Whilst Jayne Dent's music as Me Lost Me has previously presented time stretching back and forwards in opposition (noticeably on 2023's album RPG), on This Material Moment she does away with linearity altogether, evoking rather than narrating, and presenting feelings, happenings and moods with no clear beginning or end point - "like experiencing a vista, trying to capture a moment that is unfolding all at once". Instead, each track on This Material Moment exists entirely in media res, adjacent to past and future, and instead sprawling across the endless now.
This Material Moment was written and arranged solo, but played with a core band of John Pope on electric/double bass, Faye MacCalman on clarinet, and now with the addition of Ewan Mackenzie (Dextro/Pigs x7) on drums - bringing in live drums and electric bass for the first time. The album was recorded by Sam Grant at Blank Studios in Newcastle, who also worked on RPG. (https://upsettherhythm.co.uk)
With the release of This Material Moment Me Lost Me puts into practice the automatic writing techniques she developed during a workshop with Julia Holter, and in the process has spun her music in different directions that draws on poetry, psalms and using mesostic poems and phonetic translations to generate words. "Despite the chance-based writing strategies throughout, it feels like the most emotionally raw album I've ever made," she says, likening the process to a Rorschah test which revealed things to her she wasn't expecting to express. "I wanted to hide in stories, but I saw things plainly when I tried to write." Having finished the writing process, Jayne realised that she had an unexpectedly personal album on her hands, into which her feelings of burnout and overwhelm had crept unconsciously. "Several of the songs for me express a kind of inner conflict, where you're trying to keep hope and desire and beauty and art near to your heart, to live a meaningful life, but finding that increasingly hard to hold onto in a world that's so fucked up."
Whilst Jayne Dent's music as Me Lost Me has previously presented time stretching back and forwards in opposition (noticeably on 2023's album RPG), on This Material Moment she does away with linearity altogether, evoking rather than narrating, and presenting feelings, happenings and moods with no clear beginning or end point - "like experiencing a vista, trying to capture a moment that is unfolding all at once". Instead, each track on This Material Moment exists entirely in media res, adjacent to past and future, and instead sprawling across the endless now.
This Material Moment was written and arranged solo, but played with a core band of John Pope on electric/double bass, Faye MacCalman on clarinet, and now with the addition of Ewan Mackenzie (Dextro/Pigs x7) on drums - bringing in live drums and electric bass for the first time. The album was recorded by Sam Grant at Blank Studios in Newcastle, who also worked on RPG. (https://upsettherhythm.co.uk)
TRACK LIST:
1 .
Useful Analogies
(03:41)
2 . Compromise! (04:10)
3 . Lasting, Not to Last (04:58)
4 . A Painting of the Wind (04:45)
5 . Still Life (04:01)
6 . A Souvenir (03:11)
7 . Ancient Summer (04:22)
8 . Take it on Board (04:22)
9 . A Small Hand, Clamped (03:28)
10 . An Affirmation (02:06)
11 . Vanishing Point (01:12)
12 .Have You Been Changing? (04:41)
2 . Compromise! (04:10)
3 . Lasting, Not to Last (04:58)
4 . A Painting of the Wind (04:45)
5 . Still Life (04:01)
6 . A Souvenir (03:11)
7 . Ancient Summer (04:22)
8 . Take it on Board (04:22)
9 . A Small Hand, Clamped (03:28)
10 . An Affirmation (02:06)
11 . Vanishing Point (01:12)
12 .Have You Been Changing? (04:41)
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