The debut album by the Iceboy Violet and BABii collaborator drifts through the non-places of supermodernity, devastated by grief – a stirring and tender work of mourning in which traditional instruments combine with electronics with verve and ambition
When Marie Le Conte moved from Nantes to London she rejected her French identity, along with a teenage infatuation with Phoenix' fourth album. Years later, she reflects on how the "youth and hope and enthusiasm bottled inside ten neat and clean little songs" actually allows her to have a conversation with her past self about life, love and becoming.