Shoegazey indie dream pop meets cinematic artwork people etherealism within the debut single from Freya Magee. Duplicity is a triple menace of intimacy, vulnerability and candour; there’s no hiding behind the cloak of assimilation, no posturing within the vocals, no censorship of idiosyncrasy within the lyrics. Maybe most affectingly, each instrumental lends itself to the thematic presence of the monitor, which unravels like a melancholic spiral from somebody who is aware of magnificence as a lot as she is aware of ache, and she or he pushes via each as a sonic embodiment of how thorned pleasure and fulfilment may be.
Even with the extra spectral tonal palette, there’s one thing effortlessly consoling about Magee; in the identical means Mitski carries your ache at some point of a single, Freya refuses to allow you to fold below the burden of your individual pensive thoughts. With lyrics like “darkish on the left, blonde on the appropriate”, her private imagery transfigures into common emotion with out surrendering its specificity.
Initially from Melbourne, rooted in Northern Eire and now based mostly in London, Magee started writing in lockdown-era isolation. An opportunity efficiency at a cocktail party led to native reveals and, finally, to Laurel Sound Studios with Phil Taylor. The result’s Duplicity, the primary confessional chapter of a rising physique of labor that drapes vulnerability in cinematic textures and lingers lengthy after the monitor ends.
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Evaluate by Amelia Vandergast