Name: Princess Diana of Wales
Brand: Princess Diana of Wales

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

ACOLOUR 038LP

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Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-07-08

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Forced Exposure

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

4251804129749

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Princess Diana of Wales

Genre US

Experimental / Avant-Garde / Industrial / Noise

Label US

A Colourful Storm

<i>Princess Diana of Wales</i>, by London-based Australian Laila Sakini, is A Colourful Storm’s latest and most curious project. Someone, no one, a notion, a feeling... Sakini offers clues but no simple answers. 

Vocal-led pieces ‘Still Beach’ and ‘Fragments of Blue’ are brittle and intoxicating, contemplating recklessness and unfulfillment of a past life: "Watching the future wash away / Giving it up to have this day". She studies the closeness and, incredulousness of the feelings that emerge, wonders if detachment is impermanent. She catalogues these emotions as a series of memories, colors and images. ‘Evaporate’, sedated and hushed, is a secret confession and ode to resolution, albeit, fatally, only a temporary one: "Take some form / Later on when I can do this / When we can do this / Together". 

Behind the album is a stage of dubwise disorientations evoking in-between states of the everyday. ‘Swing’ and ‘Closer’ are woozy and dreamlike, their voices summoning ghosts of fortunes past while ‘Exhaust’ finds an aperture in our protagonist’s daydream. A perilous foreshadowing of the incantatory ‘Choir Chant’, whose spell pacifies her inquisition, submerging both self and feeling into the deep blue sea.

RIYL: Grouper, Kali Malone, Drew McDowall.<br>

Music US