Lonelady - Hinterland
"A grainy detail, a former trace, I'm trying to find that place."
Album: Hinterland [2nd album]
Recorded: Manchester, England
Genre: Alternative Dance
Album Release: March 23rd 2015
Length: 5.07
Producer: Bill Skibbe
Vocalist: Lonelady (Julie Campbell)
Label: Warp Records
Music Video
Live on KEXP in 2015
Charts, Streams & Sales
Spotify = 650,000 +
YouTube Music = 100,000 +
Q Magazine Top 50 Albums of 2015: #23
Credits
Details
- Mainly recorded by Lonelady at her home studio in Manchester, England using Garageband and an 8 track.
- The drums have a metallic sound to them, similar to the clanging aluminium of industrial music, that amplifies the songs theme of navigating industrial spaces. The guitar breaks also sound industrial.
- The song is about Julie looking back on her childhood in post-industrial Manchester and wanting to escape the estate but being drawn back to it as a part of her will always be of the estate. It lingers in her psyche. Despite knowing she can never fully escape the estate she is grateful for the hard lessons learned along the way as they have made her stronger. Just like the delapidated buildings, that litter the streets of Manchester, still stand tall so does LoneLady. The savaged remains of industry, however scarred, are still there, despite enduring such hardships as the blitz, which is testament to their foundations. In the same way, the people of Manchester live a heroic struggle with good cheer and humour, despite having some of the highest levels of social deprivation in the UK.
- "Wandering through the urban wastelands and outskirts of Manchester has been a ritual of mine for some time. I always see something new, erased or changed... I love the energy of this, but at times it can tip over into aggression accumulating with no release valve; the retreat of the tower block can turn into danger when the concrete bolthole becomes a cell, a place of compression. How do these things affect my music? If you’ve been shaped by a “brutish” environment, you don’t have the luxury of making “soft” music." (Lonelady writing in the Guardian in 2015)
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