Lucy Gooch - Desert Window *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 6th June 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

On her debut album, Lucy Gooch stays true to her electronic foundations, while incorporating more acoustic instrumentation and digging deeper into her folk roots through songwriting. But at the heart of Lucy’s music is her rapturous vocal, with which she has experimented more than ever over the course of her first full-length.

Many of the pieces on ‘Desert Window’ started out as vocal improvisations from which she pulled a narrative. Taking cues from the incantatory chanting found in middle English poetry such as ‘The Names of the Hare’, as well as the prescient imagery in contemporary works like ‘The Hearing Trumpet’ by Leonora Carrington (1974). “To a larger extent, this became an experiment in placing my voice in a more narrative way, while remaining oblique,” Gooch explains.

While her previous work could be compared to drawn-out landscapes punctuated with moments of romance and radiance, this album feels grounded in materiality and the everyday. Gooch’s voice is at times strident, while elsewhere restrained and broken. “I lost connection to my voice and then had to rediscover it, which was exhilarating. There were these bursts of energy where I’d be messing around and occasionally stumble upon something”. There are hushed melodies and exhausted squalls, creating dissonance and space.

The result is an atmospheric balance between Kate Bush and Cocteau Twins harmonies, Vangelis major chords, and a juxtaposition of folk ambience reminiscent of the offset madrigals of The Third Ear Band and Italian cult film composers Goblin. It is a complex and elegant album, an all-consuming series of songs that reach into jazz, electronica and classical song construction.

“An unusually developed aesthetic vision, one that joins the atmospheric quality of ambient music with the structure of choral composition and the seeming effortlessness of pop.”
Pitchfork - Best Electronic Music of 2021

“Organ-toned synthesizer chords, distant church bells and countless choirlike overdubbed harmonies. It evolves from meditation to an open-ended quasi-confession” - New York Times

 “The moment is short, but Lucy Gooch’s music makes it last forever” - NPR

 “Prismatic synth thickets impose, yet seem to quake at the same time, as if reflecting the fragility of the polar ice caps” The Guardian

 "Expansive, upfront, spectral pop" KEXP

TOUR DATES:

29 Apr: Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich, UK, w/ Alabaster DePlume 
30 Apr: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK, w/ Alabaster DePlume 
01 May: Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle, UK, w/ Alabaster DePlume 
02 May: Mono, Glasgow, UK, w/ Alabaster DePlume 
03 May: Gorilla, Manchester, UK, w/ Alabaster DePlume 
06 May: Trinity, Bristol, UK, w/ Alabaster DePlume 
07 May: Phoenix, Exeter, UK, w/ Alabaster DePlume 
08 May: Papillon, Southampton, UK, w/ Alabaster DePlume 
10 May: Concorde2, Brighton, UK, w/ Alabaster DePlume  
12 Jun: Servant Jazz Quarters, London, UK
 

Tracklisting:

Side A

A1        Like Clay
A2        Night Window (Part One)
A3        Night Window (Part Two)
A4        Keep Pulling Me In
Side B

B1        Jack Hare
B2        Clouds
B3        Our Relativity
B4        Desert Window

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