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"He sets her voice amidst lush washes of keyboards and strings, creating a compellingly cinematic sound."
- Billboard★★★★★ - “Standing Under Bright Lights is a deeply spiritual hymn to the warmth and light that burns inside us all”
– 3 Songs & Out ★★★★ 1/2 - “Think Pink Floyd visiting Radiohead…”
– Le Devoir ★★★★ – “Standing Under Bright Lights is…a mesmerizing experience. …the event feels vibrant, it grips you even…”
– Le Soleil “...the kind of spellbinding performance that elevates someone from being a talented artist – which I was already aware of – into an entirely different stratosphere”
– Über Rock
"A vivacious take that is transcending with cryptic electricity that spirals and unravels serendipitously."
- Glide
"An intense, towering finish."
- Brooklyn Vegan |
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In April of this year, Alex Henry Foster and Momoka shared their LP, Kimiyo, to much acclaim. Foster’s unique blend of introspective lyricism and captivating melodies quickly secured Kimiyo top positions on multiple US and Canadian Billboard charts, including the #1 spot on the Canadian Alternative Albums chart and #2 spots on Canadian Top Current Albums, Top Canadian Album Sales and Billboard Canadian Albums charts. Last month, Foster announced his newest LP, A Measure Of Shape And Sounds, alongside the first single, "Alchemical Connection".
Today, he shares the newest single from A Measure Of Shape And Sounds, "Sorrowful Bouquet". Alex Henry Foster talks about how "Sorrowful Bouquet" fits into the tapestry of A Measure Of Shape And Sounds, saying, "As much as the nature of [the album] has been inspired by a profound introspection about life’s impermanence and the decaying sensations that accompany the defying acceptance of our own existential consciousness, “Sorrowful Bouquet” evokes serenity and peacefulness, the results of losing our illusionary control over the conceptual power of time and over our physical limitations and tangible perspectives, thus offering the possibility to embrace emotional freedom that comes with the emancipative reflection of who we are; a transient fragment of the sound waves we’ve created through the limitations of our own selves."
The single is shared alongside a music video that encapsulates the serene feeling that the track evokes. "Aligned with the aesthetic of the Asian wabi sabi philosophy, the video for the song “Sorrowful Bouquet” was filmed in the Japanese prefecture of Tottori and is the visual metaphor contextualizing such disorienting state of mind, where the endless ocean of undulating and modulating sand symbolizes the volatile incarnation of our intimate — yet global — sense of reality."
The video invites the listener to pause, if only for 6 minutes and 54 seconds, and find themselves immersed in pinks and purples, flowing between the sand and the sun along with the water. "The water all around acts as a representation of a perpetual passage towards letting go, while the transience of the wind offers the uncanny sublimation that balances our daily sensations, scattering its different components. The sun then comes as a stabilizing marker between evolving spiritual intangibilities and the palpable decline of our personal fatalistic views. It’s a willful acceptance beyond our controlling resistance. "
What would eventually become the second chapter of Voyage à la Mer, A Measure of Shape and Sounds is an intimate journey of its own, representing a profound personal breathe-in, made of several layers of guitar loops, reverberations, resonances, and oscillations juxtaposed together to create a sonic multi-directional contemplative maelstrom. Purposely recorded live to capture as direct a flow as possible, the songs embody that exact moment, carrying their human disposition not only to abandon oneself to the motion but to become one with it.
"Sorrowful Bouquet" is out today, and A Measure of Shape and Sounds is due September 20th via Hopeful Tragedy Records. |
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Alex Henry Foster will play a short run across the U.S. this fall, supporting Temples. Tickets are on sale now. Find the full list of dates and tickets below.
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A MEASURE OF SHAPE AND SOUNDS - TRACKLISTING
01. Thoughtful Descent
02. Mechanical Revision
03. A Mind’s Tapestry
04. Cinematic Insight
05. Self-Portrait
06. Sorrowful Bouquet
07. Manic View
08. A Gesture, A Present
09. Alchemical Connection |
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