Elena Setién - Moonlit Reveries [Translucent Blue LP]

Thrill Jockey

£34.20

Format: Coloured Vinyl LP
Catalogue No.: THRILL601LPX
Barcode: 0790377601114
Release Date: 26 Jan 2024
Genre: Indie/Alternative

 Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Elena Setién uses her multi-octave vocal range and delicate arrangements to create a universe where dream worlds converge with reality.
 Setién’s masterfully allegorical songs are both emotionally immediate and provoking.  A musician’s musician, Setién has drawn collaborators from far and wide, from her improvisational duo Little Red Suitcase to more recent collaborations with Steve Gunn, Mary Lattimore, and fellow Basque musicians Xabier Erkizia and Grande Days.
 For ‘Moonlit Reveries’, a hallucinatory promenade of mood and rhythm, Setién is joined by renowned drummer / percussionist Glenn Kotche of Wilco.
 ‘Moonlit Reveries’ is an embrace of wonder, an ode to the alluring beauty, and glow of dream states. For Setién, dreams are to be appreciated. The compositions are speckled with otherworldly embellishments, from ghostly harpsichords to cavernous echoes to reverberating kalimba.
 Title track ‘Moonlit Reveries’ revels in a playful mystique, Setién’s words carried by the wind across the night’s sky. ‘Mothers’ captures the hopeful embrace of parenthood and letting go - the cycle of life - written in the wake of Low’s Mimi Parker’s premature death.
 The winner of several Basque music awards, Elena Setién’s beautiful voice, creative arrangements, and both improvisational and compositional experience make for sophisticated songs with singular textural approaches. Her otherworldly sounds are perfectly complimented by Kotche’s light and agile syncopations throughout.
 “Setién makes each song feel as vivid and atmospheric as a film score.” - Pitchfork
 “Confident and auspicious... Setién masterfully creates a musical space to cultivate social progress.” - PopMatters
 “Setién is a canny songwriter, and there’s a delicious ambiguity that haunts these songs.” - Dusted
 LP is available to independent retailers pressed on translucent blue vinyl and includes a digital download code.

Tracklisting
Hard Heart
Losing Control
Surfacing
Strange
Asking
Moonlit Reveries
Peculiar
Morning Song
Coloured Lizards
Mothers
Pintado II