{"title":"Kranky","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"mj-guider-sour-cherry-bell-lp","title":"MJ Guider - Sour Cherry Bell [LP]","description":"Genre: Gothic Pop\/Shoegaze\u003cbr\u003eFormat: LP\u003cbr\u003eCatalogue No.: KRANK228LP\u003cbr\u003eB\/C: 796441822812\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 18th September 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMelissa Guion’s second offering for Kranky retains the glassy gauze of her debut, 2016’s Precious Systems, but shaded starker and darker, framed by mechanical rhythms and humid industrial moods. She speaks of Sour Cherry Bell as something of a reckoning with her tools of creation: “I was curious to see how far I could go with them, even if that meant reaching the ends of their capacity to do what I wanted. But I never exhausted them and they never exhausted me.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Fans Of : Elizabeth Fraser\/Julee Cruise\/Siouxsie Sioux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eListen Here: https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/news\/mj-guider-channels-stark-gothic-shoegaze-on-sour-cherry-bell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUtilizing her trusted combination of instrumentation, Guion tracked the record between her New Orleans home and rehearsal space, capturing chemistries both intimate and expansive. The songs sway between twilit shoegaze, downer ballads, and gothic pop, mapping a delicate palette of electric melancholies, though in retrospect she cites as her primary muse the notion of power: “lost and found, corporeal and cerebral, harnessed and exploited, of one and many, in this reality and the next.” Sour Cherry Bell reverberates beyond the here and now into scenes unseen, worlds unheard. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracklisting: \u003cbr\u003e1. Lowlight 2. The Steelyard 3. FM Secure 4. 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She speaks of Sour Cherry Bell as something of a reckoning with her tools of creation: “I was curious to see how far I could go with them, even if that meant reaching the ends of their capacity to do what I wanted. But I never exhausted them and they never exhausted me.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Fans Of : Elizabeth Fraser\/Julee Cruise\/Siouxsie Sioux\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eListen Here: https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/news\/mj-guider-channels-stark-gothic-shoegaze-on-sour-cherry-bell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUtilizing her trusted combination of instrumentation, Guion tracked the record between her New Orleans home and rehearsal space, capturing chemistries both intimate and expansive. 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She describes her process as beginning with “a drone element and a mood,” then intuiting melody, syllables, and lyrics incrementally, like sacred shapes materializing from mist. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe experience of identifying as intersex informs the album on levels both sonic and thematic, from spoken word texts borrowed from tonal harmony textbooks to cinematic dialogue samples and castrati aria allusions. It's an appropriately interstitial vision of ambient songcraft, a chemistry of wisps and whispers, sanctuary and sorrow, conjured through a fragile balance of voice, bass, space, and texture. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDespite a background studying at the prestigious Mills College in Oakland, Roxanne's music rarely feels conceptual, instead radiating an immediate and emotive aura, rooted in the present tense of her personal journey. She speaks of the flower in the title as a body, singular and sunlit, as many petals as thorns, an enigma beholden only to itself. 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