Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Minimalist songwriter Victor Lovlorne streams album before release, dark songs using just voice and analog synthesizer


Self Sabotage Records proudly presents the self-titled debut of Austin, TX minimalist songwriter Victor Lovlorne, sharing the full album stream today ahead of release via Soundcloud, and hosted by GhettoBlaster Magazine and New Noise Magazine

Victor Lovlorne is fascinated by the beauty that can be found in the dark: the slow speed of night, the long silences between sounds, the heightened loneliness, the sense of loss, the fear of unforeseen terrors that reminds us of the blood-and-flesh animals we are. To Lovlorne, all the modernity we've built turns into a sparse repetitive landscape in the dark, and we return to being the beasts we've always been since humans existed, calling out for love as animals do, singing simple songs of inevitable despair.

With just his voice and a Korg Volca Keys, the self-titled album is the essence of minimalist dark wave: bleak yet warm & romantic. Recorded at Mexico City's Estudio 13 and mixed in Austin TX, the album includes a duet, "Sangre," with Marcela Viejo (formerly part of iconic Mexico indie rock band Quiero Club), who also contributes backing vocals throughout the album.

FFO/RIYL: Leonard Cohen; Alex Cameron; Arca; Moonface; Timber Timbre; Grouper; Jenny Hval

Victor Lovlorne: vocals, analog sequencer
Marcela Viejo: vocals

Recorded at Estudio 13 (Mexico City, Mexico).
Mixed by Chico Jones at MicroMega Studio (Austin TX).
Mastered by Greg Obis at Chicago Mastering Service (Chicago IL).
album art by Conor Q. Walker

photography by JXN ART (Jackson Montgomery Schwartz)


Artist: Victor Lovlorne
Album: Victor Lovlorne
Record Label: Self Sabotage Records
Release Date: July 20, 2018

01. A Cloud of You And Me
02. What's Left of You
03. Your Shadow
04. Sangre
05. Don't
06. Hideous Monster
07. Sound From the Throat
08. The Smell of Our Graves
09. Shining












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