Art School Girlfriend – Soft Landing (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Art School Girlfriend – Soft Landing (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:13 minutes | 515 MB | Genre: Indie Pop, Dreampop, Electronic, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fiction

Art School Girlfriend, Aka Polly Mackey, releases her second album Soft Landing, via Fiction Records. The album is self-described as a series of “small euphorias”, it is an album that finds Mackey shifting her sound towards tactile electronics whilst retaining the floating melodies of her debut.

Lead track “Close To The Clouds”, follows the success of standalone single “A Place To Lie” earlier this year. “Close To The Clouds” is an integral part of Soft Landing, with the central refrain providing the album with its title, and the song unfurling into climbing, arpeggiated synths amidst acid-house indebted drums.

Soft Landing follows Mackey’s 2020 debut album, Is It Light Where You Are? an album made in the wake of a tumultuous time and released during one. Soft Landing feels like Mackey’s true debut, a record of curiosity and playfulness with songs that sound like they are falling effortlessly into place.

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Art School Girlfriend – Is It Light Where You Are (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Art School Girlfriend – Is It Light Where You Are (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 44:49 minutes | 524 MB | Genre: Indie Pop, Dreampop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fiction

Is It Light Where You Are is the debut album from Art School Girlfriend, moniker of Welsh producer, multi-instrumental musician and song writer Polly Mackey. Mostly written over a two week period of 14-hour solo studio sessions, the bulk of her album is torn straight from a journal kept throughout 2019. Those pages chronicle the end of a US tour, the tumultuous ending of a six-year relationship and Mackey’s journey back to London from Margate, where she lived and co-owned a book shop with her then girlfriend. “The record starts with that feeling of being on the precipice of change,” she explains. “Before deciding to pull everything apart, go through it all and come out the other side.” While the lyrics are autobiographical, the full story can be heard in the album’s sonic relief map. “The main theme is duality between light and dark, lightness and heaviness. The production sort of mimics human emotions: there’s a lot of beauty buried underneath these uncomfortable-to-listen-to sounds.”

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