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Lump – LUMP (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · May 31, 2023 · Comments off

LUMP was born of good timing and predestined compatibility. It began when Mike Lindsay – a prolific, Mercury prize-winning producer – was introduced to Grammy-nominated, Brit award-winning singer-songwriter Laura Marling after her show supporting Neil Young in London. LUMP is a heady blend of wonked-out guitars, Moog synths and pattering drums, set against droning, coiling clouds of flutes and voices. The lyrics are inspired by early-20th-century Surrealism and the absurdist poetry of Edward Lear and Ivor Cutler – a bizarre but compelling narrative about the commodification of curated public personas, the mundane absurdity of individualism, and the lengths we go to escape our own meaninglessness. The composers are keen to stress that LUMP is a creation that passed through them, and they look upon it parentally. It is their understanding that, now it has come into being, LUMP is the artist, and it will continue to create itself from here on. Lindsay and Marling will assist it as necessary.

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Lump – Animal (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · May 31, 2023 · Comments off

LUMP, the electronic project of Laura Marling and Tunng’s Mike Lindsay, have announced a new album called Animal, the follow-up to their 2018 self-titled debut. (In between, Marling released Song For Our Daughter, one of the best albums of 2020.) Animal is out in July, and today LUMP have unveiled the title track, an eccentric synthy journey with hypnotic, almost robotic vocals from Marling.

“LUMP is so the repository for so many things that I’ve had in my mind and just don’t fit anywhere in that way,” Marling said of the project. “They don’t have to totally make narrative sense, but weirdly they end up making narrative sense in some way.” Listen to “Animal” and check out the new album’s tracklist below.

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