Radio Red Laura Groves

• 1Sky At Night04:31
• 2Good Intention03:42
• 3Synchronicity04:32
• 4D 4 N05:25
• 5I'm Not Crying04:30
• 6Any Day Now04:05
• 7Time04:57
• 8Sarah04:19
• 9Make a Start03:46
• 10Silver Lining04:32
• Total Runtime44:19

Info for Radio Red

Much of Radio Red, the first full length album Laura Groves has released under her own name, was written, produced and recorded by Groves in her studio, watched over by two radio transmitting towers. “I became very drawn to them and they became like symbols to me; they were always awake, sending their messages, the red lights always came on at night and watched over whatever was going on in my life.” The album deals with themes of communication - missed and intercepted signals, chance meetings, synchronicities, the channels through which we try to express our true feelings, the outside interference that can get in the way and the joy of letting go and allowing the messages to flow freely.

Self-recording and production is a core part of Laura’s songwriting process. “I remember years ago getting hold of some basic recording software and being instantly drawn in. The idea of being able to layer up my voice was a dream, like building an orchestra out of what I had at home.” The passion for home-recording, using the resources available at the time, working through limitations and capturing textures through layering, forms the foundation of Groves’ experimental and off-centre pop music and electrified folk music. The sound world of Radio Red is made up of echoes and snapshots of half-remembered pop songs, piano ballads, chopped up TV theme tunes, ambient synthesised sounds and electronic music; tuning in between channels without fully belonging to any one of them, with the comfort, familiarity and strangeness that can come with hearing voices on the radio.

Laura Groves

Laura Groves
There’s a confiding tone to Bradford-born singer/songwriter Laura Groves’ voice, one that extends a tender invitation into her world. As a member of Nautic, she took a sultry turn over horizontal funk, while her former folk-pop guise Blue Roses was veiled in pastoral allegory. Now, recording under her own name, she sounds stronger and surer than ever. On the deliriously wistful “Pale Shadows”, from her forthcoming solo EP on Bullion’s DEEK label, she uses memory like a paintbox, muddling together vivid moments and letting the accumulated emotion wash throughout the song. “All of the walls break down,” she sighs, as the song’s pitter-patter percussion fades out, leaving her words to echo round the brain.

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