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LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Skinshape - "Theme For Lazarus"
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"'High Tide Storm Rising' pulls from jazz influences with some soothing horns and a warm foundation of keyboard chords. It’s repetitive, but only enough to be catchy and hypnotizing while incorporating just enough musical texture as it goes on to keep you intrigued while staying simple and elegant."
- uInterview
"‘Theme for Lazarus’ features his gentle world-building, and the soothing aspects of his painterly touch."
- Clash
"Led by twinkling sweeps of strings and echoing vocals that float over a swelling production, the track captures a sense of wide-eyed wonderment."
- EARMILK
"On 'Theme for Lazarus,' he wanders through mischievous pop landscapes, filled with orchestral plucks, wobbly percussive beats, wordless vocalizations, and slivers of wiry guitar lines. The track develops and maintains a groove that is hard to pin down, sashaying from side to side, never losing its momentum and offering multiple ways into its opaque depths — it find purpose in this gauzy architecture, crafting a series of moments in which the music gives itself over fully to the whims of Dorey’s creativites."
- Beats Per Minute
"You can really hear a sense of nostalgia on 'Theme For Lazarus.' It’s a dreamy tune with propulsive strings, choral-like harmonies, and hazy vocal lines"
- Indie88
"The track plays and fiddles around with its identity, adding new sounds, vocals, and rhythms the longer you listen and every new addition is a surprise and absolute joy. Aptly named a 'Theme for Lazarus' this tack revives me at every turn."
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Will Dorey aka Skinshape recently announced his seventh solo album, Nostalgia (out October 28 via Lewis Recordings), on which he taps into motives and motifs. To celebrate, he shares the record's newest single, a soft crooning ballad entitled "Turn Away."
"'Turn Away' is a song in two parts," explains Will Dorey. "The front section is intended to be classic songwriter style, with a focus on the chord progression and lyrics. The second half perhaps represents a curious epiphany, a realisation of something profound." As the plot develops, Dorey’s clandestine charisma creates an alchemic, and most gentlemanly, cleansing of the soul.
Loosely constructed as an expansion of 2018’s Filoxiny LP, Nostalgia finds Dorey continuing to explore sounds, textures, and filmic set pieces drawing from the works of Quincy Jones and Ennio Morricone, infused with the sights and sounds of his hometown of Swanage in Dorset while adopting a London mindset as per his residence during the recording process. Expanding and retuning the classic Skinshape sound, Nostalgia looks back and moves forward in the same breath as contemporaries Khruangbin, Quantic, Tame Impala, Bonobo, Morcheeba, and Madlib.
Painted with the sort of warm glow that Nostalgia naturally emits/gravitates toward, Dorey continues to excel in blithe spirit and home comforts, impishly inquisitive and bushy-tailed on the opening "Theme for Lazarus," then attentively absorbing South American colour and culture during "Dreams of Panama." His is the sort of after hours ambience that you want to stay awake for after a day’s adventuring: the likes of "Albion," "Bohanon’s Cornucopia" – expanding Skinshape’s virtuosity with his use of oboe, choir and vibraphone – and the concluding "Dawn," overlap calming lullabies into haunting framings of moments of time that will still catch you should you fall.
Said Dorey, “I spent a while thinking about the title for this album; it was quite hard to pin down the feeling I felt it represented. At a certain point I realised it was nostalgia, for everything; our life passed by, childhood, moments of happiness and sadness, where we grew up.”
Down country lanes via remote paradises and the makings of the mind’s eye, Nostalgia continues. The dub-flecked "Moonlight Walk" will encourage twilight tiptoeing through a ghost town, but whose rich, sweet musicianship provides a safety net from any danger. "High Tide, Storm Rising," decorated with Dorey’s signature guitar work, defines the album’s optimism that remains quietly guarded and down-to-earth. "Turn Away" charms you into the horizontal, while "Bad Dreams" plucks up the courage to send heads swimming with a psych-funk groove.
“Nostalgia is meant to embody a journey through life, it's ups and downs, ebbs and flows” – and who better to help steer you through such sentiment. |
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