Lael Neale – Star Eaters Delight (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Lael Neale – Star Eaters Delight (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:26 minutes | 791 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sub Pop Records

New, self-recorded album by LA/Virginia artist Lael Neale explores themes of transcendentalism, the polarities of nature and civilization, and healing via minimalist pop ala the Velvet Underground. Lael Neale still has a flip phone and there were no screens involved in the creation of her new record Star Eaters Delight. The album is her second for Sub Pop and reveals an expansion of her sonic collaboration with producer and accompanist Guy Blakeslee. In April of 2020, in the wake of transformations both personal and global, Lael moved from Los Angeles back to her family’s farm in rural Virginia. Looking at the world from a distance and getting in tune with her own rhythms, she wrote and recorded steadily for two dreamlike years, driven by a need to make order out of chaos. Forged in isolation, Star Eaters Delight is a vehicle for returning, not just to civilization, but to celebration. She says, “Acquainted with Night (recorded in 2019, and released in 2021), was focused inward, amidst the loud and bright Los Angeles surrounding me. It was an attempt to create spaciousness and quiet reverie within. When I moved back to the farm, I found that the unbroken silences compelled me to break them with sound. This album is more external. It is me reaching back out to the world, wanting to feel connected, to wake up, to come together again.”

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Lael Neale – Acquainted with Night (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Lael Neale – Acquainted with Night (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:32 minutes | 720 MB | Genre: Indie Pop, Indie Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sub Pop Records

It is the simple thing that is so hard to do. This is the paradox that musician Lael Neale has lived within throughout her development as an artist. It is the reason she became enthralled with poetry. Poems are a distillation. Lael says, “this challenge to winnow away what is unessential is the most maddening and, ultimately, rewarding part of writing a song.”

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