Death Of A Society Girl is the latest album by Perry Blake the Irish artist whose best known in France where his career really took off in the late 90's. He has collaborated over the years with among others Francoise Hardy, Dickon Hinchcliffe, Neil Conti, Steve Jansen and Emilie Simon. He was also part of a project of Children's books whose other authors included Jimmy Carter, Will Smith and Julie Andrews. This album features his long-time collaborator Graham Murphy and special guest Paul McGann, it was recorded at Orchardleigh in Northwest Ireland and The Production Suite in Dublin.
The album opens with Requiem a gauzy electronica Requiem for that Society Girl who has followed her mother's path, the narrator feels he has let them all down, strings accentuate the pain he feels.
One Of These Days marries slow deliberate strings with electronica drum patterns, a tale of what led to this yearning for One Of Those Days to happen again.
Nobodies Child is melancholic harp led synth pop, full of mystery with a super slow bassline decorating the slowly evolving tale, that has an overwhelming feeling of sadness and loss at its core.
Song Of The Wind is a very 2024 song as they are soaked to the skin in the never ending rain, that has lush orchestration married with electronica similar to Etienne Daho's Paris Ailleurs.
Let's Fall In Love is smoochy string laden synth pop hoping to woo you, lull you into his arms with the gorgeous intent of the music.
Concertina is a song for change, although not always the change you want, but change is inevitable, calm clock ticking, raindrop percussive elements draw you into the crevices created within the concertina of life, while night falls beckoning you.
Rules Of Love is far less demanding than Prince Busters 10 Commandments Of Love, these soft shuffled rules appear to be about making sure you express that love to each other fully.
The earlier single Death of A Society Girl features backing vocals and a narration about that girl he spent time with in Stockholm from Paul McGann, he gazes at the world through her eyes, finding out just what went on, among the beauty of the strings, tempered by percussion that fits in, making points while the story unfolds across Europe.
Hummingbirds cooly leads you deep into the world of the Hummingbirds the estuarine existence, emerging before diverging, taking us out far from earth within the lush orchestration.
The album closes with Let's Fall In Love (Remix) that ups the way the sound feels indebted to Etienne Daho, as well as lots of soundtracks, lush orchestrated gauzy pop, intended to help seduce you, eventually it has a glitchcore break out that might get you flung back across the dancefloor rather than held in a deeper embrace.
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