With his new album, Richard Neale, an artist from the southern England, opens up a coffer of condensed sadness and beauty. Seven tracks melting souls with delicate keys and dreampop compositions with surprising, otherworldly backing chorals.
I haven't heard a more delicate vocal in a while. Neale's voice sounds like a velvet veil - airy and extremely sad. In "Somewhere in the Dead of Night" it is accompanied by backing vocals sounding like a choir of dreamy sleepwalkers that in "Young Adult" reaches the almost heavenly spheres. The contrast between the sound of choir and the whispering, or maybe recited, vocal parts is what makes the biggest impact on the audience.
The album was created as a playlist of improvised piano pieces that evolved into a mixture of "whispered folk, choral, ambient, post rock and subtle electronics.". It is absolutely right 0 the neoclassical piano, sounds of glockenspiel and ambient backgrounds are our company throughout the whole album and they are joined by, sometimes quite harsh, guitars ("Wave of Indifference").
"Eves" is available for pay what you want.
