Lucy Gooch
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.
Lucy Gooch began releasing music with her acclaimed use of vocal layering on the debut ‘Rushing’ EP and the following ‘Rain’s Break’ EP; this genre-traversing collection of songs established her as rising new artist in 2021 with performances at Glastonbury, SXSW and Rewire. Following this flurry of activity, she experienced change and upheaval, whilst working on what would become her debut; moving from Bristol to Norwich before finally settling in York.
Her debut full-length results in 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.