Hannah Peel - All That Matters

The little music box interlude on the final song, Planet of Passed Souls, just sent shivers down my spine.

She has a way of being completely EPIC!!!! and MAGNIFICENT!!! and SPACERAWK!!!!!! and yet somehow completely intimate at the same time?

this is unbelievable

holy crap

chipping in to say that all comments above are true.

first thought it was great, but was panned and mixed weirdly, then the colliery band brought a wall of sound right where I had thought something was missing,

and I was like "ah yes"

kicking myself for not making it out the the southbank show a month or so back....

Fucking hell

Damnit, I need to hear this. ABAD was a top 5er for me last year - this woman is incredibly talented.

This is everything that you all said it was. Holy shit what a record. Those horns are used so perfectly to blend with the synths to create such sonic harmony, timbral harmony, even. Think it was the beginning of Andromeda, but there's a moment where a horn comes in, is drenched in reverb and surrounded by analog synth tones and blends to become a whole. Another track utilized the intense bottom end on a bass synth tone to fill in the horns filling up the middle of the frequencies. This album is really well mixed.

it's like a synthony! Alright, back to bed.

She is so good. Glad to see someone who got their start on my friend's label Static Caravan reaching these levels. She completely deserves it. I think each release of hers eclipses the previous one.

this album was incredible

certainly one of the best of the year. feel like it'll be overlooked.

(and by that I mean the Mary Casio album)

If you include last year's Magnetic North album she's made three tremendous albums in two years. Hard to think of another artist in such great form right now.

I love this year's album and the one from last year that I knew, don't know of the Magnetic North but will seek that out

Just ordered it from Juno. Wish she'd put out her covers EP on a 10" or something. Double 7" would be tasty.

3-hour "New Year space mix" up on BBC for another few days - I'll probably have to finagle some sort of VPN to listen to it when I'm home:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09kg5xd

I saw Hannah with Tubular Brass the other night in London and want to encourage anyone who gets a chance to see her (either alone, or with them) to do so. It was quite astounding. They did mary casio; and then tubular brass did their arrangement of tubular bells, which I wasn't expecting at all but was lovely. She's a perfectly lovely and nice person as well. Very grateful I got a chance to see this as her chances of bringing all of this to the US ever are pretty much nil due to the expense.

also: the chorus boy at the end of the Mary Casio album: this is a recording of her grandfather from the early 20th century. Not sure if this has been noted anywhere else; the guy from Tubular Brass informed everyone after her set.

Took awhile for me to get into the record as all that matters is a classic pop misdirection move. The rest of the album feels closer to the sideways pop of hukkelberg or stina nordenstam

Remix album: https://hannahpeel.tmstor.es/cart/product.php?id=37199

hell yeah

New collaborative album Chalk Hill Blue with a poet, Will Burns:

https://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2019/01/will-burns-hannah-peel-chalk-hill-blue/

New album on Bandcamp tomorrow apparently.

yes looking forward to it. She's a treasure.

whaaaaaaaat yes! Her last two were amazing. Hope her voice makes a return on this one

Oh, it's a live version of Chalk Hill Blue from the Barbican. I mean I was at that gig, it was incredible, but I'd psyched myself up for new material.

i'm super fucking bummed I missed that Barbican show last summer, so it'll be nice to hear this

or whenever it was, now I can't remember

Is this more like it? Assembled from a TV soundtrack.

https://hannahpeelmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-deceived-original-tv-soundtrack

Oh, I need to hear this! I really failed to connect with Chalk Hill Blue, and I'm curious as to her future directions.

If you can bear the thought of yet another effectively instrumental Hannah Peel album rather than a proper follow-up to Awake But Always Dreaming, her new (quite short) album Fir Wave is marvellous, very much in keeping with the more abstract and foreboding stretches of that album, and less ambient / film score than a lot of her material since then.

Seems to be a concept album about the natural world along the lines of Bjork’s Biophilia.

I don’t she’s ever going to do another record like ‘Awake’. She’s been pretty clear in interviews that she’s been there, done that, and prefers to move on.

it's extremely lovely, received my copy the other day and played it for the first time last night.

she’s been there, done that

so she's never singing again? her voice and songwriting are too good to just "move on" from

I haven't listened to anything she's done since Mary Casio for some reason, but this new one is hitting all of my buttons. Excited to explore more of her back catalog.

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet. Peel's singing again, and it's not what you'd expect! Absolutely gorgeous, probably my favorite music of hers since Awake But Always Dreaming.

https://hannahpeelmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-unfolding