private LIFE [CD]

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 Wings 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 Side A A1 Im Holding Out For Something A2 Moon Turn Tides A3 Soft Fruit A4 Michael Returns To The Garden A5 99 North A6 Return To View Side B B1 St. Francis Fountain B2 Private Life B3 Half Mourning B4 Lucky Coin B5 OBW Saints B6 I Know About These Things

• Format Detail: CD
• Format: CD
• Genre: Rock