Loosely based on a genuine story accounting the short-lived abilities of a young psychic nurse in 1920’s London, Fenella’s niche muse justifies this celebratory return to vinyl but not once does it fall into the supposed tropes of staid hauntological-plunderphonics which repeatedly come to muddy our thirsty streams. Fenella make spirited melodic progressive pop music that pulsates with the same magnetism that fans of Jane Weaver's own The Silver Globe and Modern Kosmology have come to expect and hold closely.
Handcrafted using a generous archive of some of the best vintage equipment in the country (partly recorded at Soundgas studios in Darkest Derbyshire) the sound structures you hear at the heart of this album form the basis for Fenella's best work yet, while the individual spectral vocalisations and ethereal electronics that circle the room capture this trio's return, as peripheral visions, in full-phantasmic bloom.
Released: November 2022
Cat: FIRELP662
Label: Fire Records
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Tracklist
Side A
A1 Pulsion (Nurse On Train)
A2 Instituts Métapsychique
A3 "A young girl of medium height"
A4 Hexagonal Table
A5 Telekinetoscopes
Side B
B1 Shadow Apparatus
B2 The Metallic Index
B3 Lilacs Illuminate In Indigo
B4 After the Visions
B5 Stellar In Spectra
B6 Are They With You? (The Final Chord)