Art School Girlfriend - Waves

"Waves only get bigger."

Album: Soft Landing [2nd album]
Recorded: London, England
Genre: Downtempo, Dream Pop
Album Release: August 2023
Single Release:
Length: 4:00
Producer: Art School Girlfriend
Vocalist: Art School Girlfriend
Label: Fiction Records

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• The album was partially recorded at Art School Girlfriends home studio in London and several tracks feature her girlfriend Marika Hackman on backing vocals. This adds to the albums cozy, intimate feel.
  
• This album has a dancier vibe compared to Art School Girlfriends debut effort and was inspired by her time djing in London clubs.
• Art School Girlfriend hosts a monthly radio show on Foundation FM.
  
  
• Waves is an atmospheric piece of electronica full of noises that travel from speaker to speaker in order to create a sense of sway, which mimics the sound of waves. It's about a person moving on with their life and was wrote after Art School Girlfriend broke-up with her partner. It sounds like the artist offering words of encouragement to herself and is a sonic recreation of her emotional life.
  
  The focus here is the internal experience, the waves of emotion that come and go after a turbulent time. The song doesn't make any grand statements, it isn't heartbroken but is rather an attempt to capture the singers changing mood using the medium of sound. It has an introverts scope, which is to say that the exploration of humanity is turned inwards and told through the prism of the self instead of being concerned with social connections or how people interact with each other, such as Rage Against the Machine.
  
  The verses, which have a cold feel, focus on the end of the relationship while the more optimistic choruses, which are accompanied by warm pulses, concentrate on not waiting for the perfect time to start again "waves only get bigger, don't wait on the sand ... you cut a lone figure, don't wait on the sun."
  
  
• The album Soft Landing is about Art School Girlfriend's emotional life. The album cover, as well as that of the singles, is comprised of gasses with various different colour configurations and representing complex, changing emotions.
  
  
  

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