Allume – Paperbark
Truly it must be Adelaide week up in Sound Doctrine right now because I’m going ham sandwich on these South Australian records. Today’s flavour comes courtesy of Allume whose list of shared performative credits includes Oliver White (see my last post) and Tracy Chen (see the one before that) so if you’ve enjoyed the offerings this week then why not make it three from three? Her real name is Elena Nees and she’s one half of another Adelaide outfit called Hummingbird. This however, is the first single to come courtesy of a solo EP that she’s completed and will be releasing through Melbourne label Healthy Tapes. Lo-fi and electronica are the two tags assigned by soundcloud and I’ll absolutely allow them here. Warm, ambient synth sounds drench Nees’ voice. Deep, pitch shifted incarnations of her voice float underneath, sounding like the sub-conscious voice paralleling the conscious. According to Nees’ herself, “it’s about a bit between two relationships, when there’s still a lingering left over bit of one love, and sorta conceding there always will be, the sensation of those two loves residing alongside each other… but also the necessary letting go of one to make room for the newer, present love”
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