View basket “Sucker’s Lunch” has been added to your basket. A New Reality Mind Madeline Kenney SKU: CAK168LP Barcode: 677517016819 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Carpark Records Released Date: 28th July 2023 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Add to basket Reserve Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info In the quiet surrounding the pandemic, Madeline Kenney made sonic sketches in the basement studio she shared with her then-partner. She arranged phrases that called her—the sharp knife of a synth cutting a path along a blooming arpeggio, drums stuttering firm and tight. Working this way, she amassed a collection of songs she had no particular aims for. Some formed her 2021 EP Summer Quarter, others languished. But in 2022, Kenney’s partner left suddenly and without warning, plunging her into the solitary act of untangling what happened. In the wake of her ensuing depression, she revisited these songs and found in them something prescient. She’d already laid the foundation for A New Reality Mind. That her relationship’s end came without warning is only half true, though. The warnings were in the feelings and fears that inspired Kenney’s critically-acclaimed third album, Sucker’s Lunch (2020), which was co-produced by Jenn Wasner (Flock of Dimes) and centered around the idea of flinging oneself freely into the seemingly-assured destruction of new love, come what may. If sonically Sucker’s Lunch was letting yourself be pulled into the warm bath of a good story, A New Reality Mind reflects the harsh light of truth coming to break the spell. But as sobering as morning light can be, there’s brilliance to it, too. To see in the clarity of day is a gift. A revolution. Rather than reckoning with love lost, the songs on A New Reality Mind grapple with the self that chose to fall. “I guess I only needed to look twice / Reflected in my attitude, my constant compromise,” Kenney sings on “Red Emotion,” the musical landscape screeching and gasping around her observations of how she made herself small to keep the dream of love alive. These notions of sight and vision pervade the record as Kenney stands before the infinity mirror of selves she’s been to preserve bonds in her life. On “I Drew a Line,” Kenney contends with the stories she’s told herself to keep plodding along, and the way those stories shape her perceived reality. She invokes John Berger’s Ways of Seeing—“Everything around the image is part of its meaning,” we hear him say. “Everything around it confirms and consolidates its meaning.” Here, Kenney isn’t interested in shaming herself for being carried away by the fantasies of the heart, but rather in investigating the unavoidably human propensity to do so. “I, like everyone else, am muddling through my most ordinary disaster of a life,” she acknowledges, a sentiment which reverberates through album opener “Plain Boring Disaster.” “I don’t need to start again,” she sings at the song’s close. “But I can change when it ends.” We may all be doomed to repetitive, ordinary heartbreaks, Kenney realizes, but at least we can cultivate a capacity to witness our missteps and build new realities for ourselves. This is Kenney’s most expansive work, while also her most solitary. Produced and recorded alone in her basement, these songs are manifestations of what it feels like to be transformed by pain. Textures collide and collude; sonic ornaments emerge and dissipate capriciously; saxophones soar untamed, as on the 80s pop elegy to self-sacrifice, “Reality Mind”. These songs beg you to dance, then pull the rug out from under you once you’ve caught the beat, leaving you dizzy like the whiplash of love’s end. But in the propulsive power of A New Reality Mind, there’s also acceptance, self-forgiveness, and a willingness to move forward into life, with all its ways of making a sucker of you. “That way of living, I’m over it,” Kenney declares of the habits that hold her back on “Superficial Conversation”. “I do not need to be reminded of what I did,” she assures, the song opening wide and beaming, like a smile expanding to taste a new breath of air. Artist Madeline Kenney Genre Rock And Pop Label Carpark Records Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Intro Plain Boring Disaster Superficial Conversation Reality Mind I Drew A Line It Carries On Red Emotion The Same Again HFAM Leaves Me Dry Expectations Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Madeline Kenney and more from Rock And Pop On Sale View Product Quick View Madeline Kenney Sucker’s Lunch Rock And Pop | Carpark Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 31st July 2020 £11.99 £17.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Madeline Kenney Sucker’s Lunch £11.99 £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Carpark Records SKU: CAK144LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 31st July 2020 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Holland Andrews Wordless / Forgettings Rock And Pop | Warner Music | 1LP Released 13th May 2022 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Holland Andrews Wordless / Forgettings £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Music SKU: 4050538773668 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th May 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Steve Gunn Way Out Weather Rock And Pop | Paradise Of Bachelors | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 25th May 2015 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Steve Gunn Way Out Weather £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Paradise Of Bachelors SKU: POB015LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 25th May 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Yann Tiersen Cascade Street Rock And Pop | Ici DAilleurs | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th November 2012 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Yann Tiersen Cascade Street £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Ici DAilleurs SKU: IDA002LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th November 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jeff Caudill Reset The Sun Rock And Pop | Revelation | 1LP Released 22nd April 2017 £6.99 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Jeff Caudill Reset The Sun £6.99 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Revelation SKU: RSD17048 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd April 2017 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Toyah & The Humans We Are The Humans Rock And Pop | Demon | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 3rd July 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Toyah & The Humans We Are The Humans £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Demon SKU: DEMREC699 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 3rd July 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo Rock And Pop | Matador | 1LP Released 2nd March 2011 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Matador SKU: OLE9381 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 2nd March 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View My Morning Jacket My Morning Jacket Rock And Pop | ATO | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 22nd October 2021 £33.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders My Morning Jacket My Morning Jacket £33.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: ATO SKU: ATO0573 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 22nd October 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Superdrag In The Valley of Dying Stars Rock And Pop | Superdrag Sound Laboratories | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 4th June 2021 £32.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Superdrag In The Valley of Dying Stars £32.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Superdrag Sound Laboratories SKU: 616948918583PMI Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 4th June 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Heartless Bastards A Beautiful Life Rock And Pop | Sweet Unknown Records | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 10th September 2021 £20.00 Select options Heartless Bastards A Beautiful Life £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sweet Unknown Records Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 10th September 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Liberator Rock And Pop | Virgin | 180g, 1LP Released 6th August 2021 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Liberator £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Virgin SKU: 3542249 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 6th August 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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