{"product_id":"niecy-blues-exit-simulation-cd","title":"Niecy Blues - Exit Simulation [CD]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: KRANK240 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 796441824021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e01 Dec\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Ambient\/Singer-Songwriter\/ R\u0026amp;B\/Downtempo Gospel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSouth 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTheir full-length debut, Exit Simulation, captures this sense of deep-rooted divination, cycling between simmering ballads, ghosted R\u0026amp;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.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRecorded 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.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe 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.”\u2028\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePress for Cry EP:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“A mesmerising new three-song EP which veers between barely-there ambience and something altogether more soulful.” GoldFlakePaint\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. 1111 2. The Nite B4 3. U Care 4. Violently Rooted 5. Exit Simulation 6. Exits 7. Soma 8. Messages From Above 9. Lament 10. Violently Rooted Reprise 11. The Architect 12. Analysis Paralysis 13. Cascade\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kranky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42660708909212,"sku":"KRANK240","price":19.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/files\/KRANK240_6441ba64-e948-47d5-a168-c1d81900d0cc.jpg?v=1695064704","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/niecy-blues-exit-simulation-cd","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}