View basket “Thin Ice: The First Step” has been added to your basket. On Sale Pure-O (Indies Only) Farao SKU: WV177LPC1 Barcode: 616892577348 12.99 £21.00 £12.99 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Western Vinyl Released Date: 16th October 2018 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code Add to basket Reserve Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info R.I.Y.L. Grimes, Kelly Lee Owens, Phantogram, Sylvan Esso, Sophie, Toro Y Moi. Limited edition LP is on clear vinyl, this is for Indie stores only. “…rich and highly detailed…consistently complex and worthwhile.” Pitchfork “a mightily impressive debut” MOJO “mesmerizing” Vanity Fair “an enchanting mix of her ethereal voice and the sparkle of electronics” NPR Music “the next big thing to come out of the fjords” Time Out “lilting, skewed folktronica, simple on the surface, deadly beneath” The Sunday Times Pure-O, the new LP by Berlin-via-Norway musician Farao, is a prog-pop exposition on the curious dichotomy between beauty and destructiveness in sex and relationships. Where so much modern pop attempts to tug similar thematic threads only to succumb to naiveté and euphemism, Farao grabs these subjects and dives headlong into a neon pool of synthesizer, zither, drums, and soaring vocals without sacrificing maturity, complexity, or artistry. Musically, she references 90’s R&B, and the untapped goldmine of Soviet disco. But the most important pillar of Pure-O – its living, breathing, biological quality– is entirely Farao’s own. To be sure, all of the electronic ingredients are in the exact right places on Pure-O. Soviet-made synth tones ripple out fr om an undefined center lik e a Frank Stella painting, with sharply angled lines of color buzzing with concentric, hand-painted ecstasy. Rolling vocal melodies carry descriptive turns of phrase to gratifying heights, echoing in listeners’ minds long after their ears. In the spaces between all this electricity, there are shimmering microcosms of Alice Coltrane-esque acoustics that provide the album with an unmistakably rich, tactile marrow. Perhaps, then, we’re hearing Farao’s early youth in Norway finding perfect equilibrium with her adulthood in Berlin on Pure-O. She says of the time she spent recording, “I was in the process of learning how to conduct myself while not getting sucked in to the whirlpool that is Berlin party culture,” and of her childhood “It wasn’t a place I felt stimulated creatively, and felt quite lonely there growing up, which made me turn to music as a language for a set of emotions I didn’t know how to release otherwise.” It’s precisely this relationship between quiet reflection and overstimulation that makes the album unlike anything of its genre. In an age when non-electronic pop seems like an outlier, Farao constructs a bridge of humanity from the organic to the inorganic, rounding out the hard edges and sharpening the soft ones, thereby transplanting a healthy, beating heart into modern synth-pop. Artist Farao Genre Rock And Pop Label Western Vinyl Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 01 Marry Me 3:47 02 Lula Loves You 4:02 03 Get Along 3:01 04 Luster Of The Eyes 3:13 05 Cluster of Delights 5:16 06 Gabriel 4:18 07 Melodiya 1:10 08 The Ghost Ship 3:58 09 Triumph Over Me 3:37 10 Truthsayer 4:16 Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Farao and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Farao Pure-O Rock And Pop | Western Vinyl | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 19th October 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Farao Pure-O £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Western Vinyl SKU: WV177LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 19th October 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View James Blake Playing Robots Into Heaven Rock And Pop | Polydor | 1LP, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 22nd September 2023 £26.00 - £35.00 Select options James Blake Playing Robots Into Heaven £26.00 - £35.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Polydor Formats: 1LP, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 22nd September 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? 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