Name: private LIFE
Brand: Virginia Wing

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FIRELP599

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Limited edition

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2021-02-12

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Virginia Wing

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Psychedelic

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Fire Records

Fire Records is an independent record label headquartered in London, England, UK. Founded in the mid 80s, Fire Records has been a prominent force in the music industry for decades. They have released early records from Pulp, Teenage Fanclub, Spacemen 3, Blue Aeroplanes, and many other influential artists. In the early 90s, the label was home to notable acts such as Neutral Milk Hotel, The Lemonheads, Built to Spill, and Urge Overkill.With a rich history of discovering talent and nurturing their careers, Fire Records remains dedicated to supporting groundbreaking musicians across various genres. Their diverse roster showcases both established names and emerging talents who push boundaries and challenge conventions.

Virginia Wing is a band hailing from Manchester, UK. Comprised of Alice Merida Richards on vocals, bass, sampler, and synth; Sam Pillay on guitar, synth, and sampler; and Sebastian Truskolaski on drums. Known for their unique blend of cyclical repeato-rock, synthetically-manipulated shoegaze, and 90s-inspired hauntology. Their music possesses an innate ability to seemingly pause time and space while maintaining an uninterrupted stillness.

Influenced by artists such as Broadcast and Stereolab, Virginia Wing's sound transcends the sedate school of dream-pop escapism. With their stylistic meditations applied amidst a sense of uninterrupted stillness, they create a captivating musical experience that captivates listeners.

If you enjoy the sounds of Bernice, U.S. Girls, Vanishing Twin or Ulrika Spacek among others - you will find yourself drawn to Virginia Wing's distinctive sound. Explore their discography today!

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One of the year's most daring and true pop records, private LIFE comes as the result of Virginia Wing living through, and with, huge personal emotional and mental traumas. It is a document of how the very process of music creation in a group can be of huge therapeutic benefit to people. The three members of Virginia Wing have explored the depths of their creative and artistic inspirations within performance, production and composition, and have made a candid and brash pop record that speaks clearly about hope, desperation, impulse, addiction, urge and shame.

More tumultuous than its predecessor, private LIFE knocks hard. The evolution of Virginia Wing’s sound continues to build on the broad creative flow of the last album whilst being another audacious contribution to contemporary pop. The drums are huge and playfully unquantized. Edits are both assured and heavy handed, the instrumentation lightly mediates the two and finds itself on the edge of collapse alongside them. The icy facade of Merida Richards’ words are still front and centre, but are contrasted by dense, multilayered improvisations, vying for attention throughout the record. Over I’m Holding Out For Something’s relentless juggernaut of 90’s R’n’B beats, Richards examines the relentless hope and desperation glued to modern consciousness, and speaks of how we often find the answer, or the route through, right at the breaking point. Subsequently, St Francis Fountain compounds the issue, observing that often our own coping mechanisms can grow into full blown traumas of their own. Virginia Wing’s last record opened its arms into euphoric light, private LIFE invites you through a door and closes it. It examines what we’re doing at night, on our own, after work. What we do to enjoy ourselves, to cope, to be together, to be alone. It shines a dim blue light on what might be happening, causing us anxiety, stress and desire.

private LIFE

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