No Longer - Vinyl LP
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- Vinyl Format: Vinyl LP
- Release Date: 08-07-2020
- Label: Empty Cellar
- Genre: Rock
Track List
- No Longer
- I've Studied You
- Drown
- Flesh in a Womb
- Housing Alcove
- Ides Underneath
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"No Longer is a suite of six absorbing, patient reveries on conflicted concupiscence and encroaching darkness by Berkeley songwriter Frank Ene, who composed the material in a period of solitude following the demise of his noise-pop group Pure Bliss. Ene abstained from socializing to write the songs, venturing outside mostly to work in the basement of a frame-shop or observe students on the nearby UC Berkeley campus, vintage self-help paperbacks stuffed in his pockets. When it came time to record, he opted to play nearly every instrument himself. 'Some songs are affirmations,' he said. 'The saddest ones I can't remember writing, as if someone entered my mind and body in a really brutal way.' "Suffused with an atmosphere of slow-simmering tension, No Longer traffics in understated grooves reminiscent of latter-era Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, with Ene's rich voice somehow sounding at once wispy and full-bodied. 'Flesh In The Womb,' one of the songs to feature songwriter and Fresh & Onlys guitarist Wymond Miles, channels the lasciviousness of Serge Gainsbourg as well as the beguiling sparseness of Dean Blunt. The lyrics to 'Housing Alcove,' a crushing meditation on childhood trauma, reveal competing, interconnected feelings of vulnerability and ambition (a duality captured by the evocative album art). A dynamic, repeat listen, No Longer stands among the most musically arresting and emotionally contoured Bay Area solo debuts in recent memory." -Sam Lefebvre
- Vinyl Format: Vinyl LP
- Release Date: 08-07-2020
- Label: Empty Cellar
- Genre: Rock
Track List
- No Longer
- I've Studied You
- Drown
- Flesh in a Womb
- Housing Alcove
- Ides Underneath
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