Ecstatic Arrow, by Virginia Wing

Virginia Wing - The Second Shift (Official Video)

Ecstatic Arrow

by Virginia Wing

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Entleiber Hard to select a favourite track when they're all that good. Clarity in thought and sound, Virginia Wing once again succeed in uniting poetry and music, heart and brain in a most unique way. The vocals frequently change from spoken word into singing, creating irresistible melodies. Alice's voice is clear, unwavering yet gentle, and her words find a new way of looking at the world and oneself at every turn. Favorite track: Relativity.

apizzle These cuts surround me in love and comfort. I adore the melody and delicate, strong lyrics. Sometimes the best song is the last one. Favorite track: Seasons Reversed.

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1.	Be Released 04:26	buy track
2.	The Second Shift 03:01 video	buy track
3.	Glorious Idea 04:25	buy track
4.	Relativity 04:22	buy track
5.	For Every Window There's a Curtain 03:15	buy track
6.	The Female Genius 03:49	buy track
7.	Eight Hours Don't Make A Day 03:51	buy track
8.	A Sister 04:04	buy track
9.	Pale Burnt Lake 04:16	buy track
10.	Seasons Reversed 05:10	buy track

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Our favourite records are the perfect counterbalance of the considered and the superficial. Whether it’s Madonna, Talking Heads or Holger Czukay - we enjoy these artists in the background with friends or profoundly and alone.

Virginia Wing both understand and embrace this concept fully as they return with Ecstatic Arrow, an album which finds them in a place of renewed strength, optimism and clarity.

Recorded in Switzerland, in the family home of longtime friend and collaborator Misha Hering within the domesticity and gentle routine of communal life, the album represents a world as predisposed to solemn introspection as it is to blithe conviviality.

Ecstatic Arrow borrows from the heterogeneous terrain of The Flying Lizard’s Fourth Wall, the exuberant technology assisted pop of Yellow Magic Orchestra and the playful sophistication of Lizzy Mercier Descloux’s Press Colour, arriving at the evergreen intersection of pop music and conceptual art.

The resolute opener of Be Released and album centre point The Female Genius pair resonant Fourth World instrumentation with sonorous, loping drum patterns. Elsewhere, the sentimental march of single The Second Shift plays out like an after-hours ballad re-imagined by Wally Badarou and For Every Window There’s a Curtain is coloured by the blue-lit haze of an Eventide warped tenor saxophone.

Three albums in, the voice of Alice Merida Richards is more compelling and expressive than ever. The glacial deadpan of previous records has given way to a more candid, self-possessed delivery, showing an appreciation for the humour and tragedy innate in the downtown Arcadia of Laurie Anderson, Robert Ashley or even Lynn Goldsmith’s Will Powers.

It’s with this voice that Richards outlines a simple ideality that fortifies the entirety of Ecstatic Arrow - inequality pervades, destructive behaviours are inherited and each subsequent generation has to reconcile the debts of its precursor - yet a space exists within ourselves and each other that houses a fact we must be reminded of - we have the ability to choose. Even in moments of frustration; the ascerbic eye-roll toward male entitlement, Glorious Idea or the world-weary Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day, there persists a joy for living that refuses to be confined.

A depiction of a group finally at ease with itself, Ecstatic Arrow is a tribute to the internal momentum that quietly guides us toward our destination.

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released June 8, 2018

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