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Artist......: Liela Moss
Album.......: Who The Power
Label.......: Bella Union Records
Genre.......: Indie
Catnr.......: BELLA1044CD
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2020-10-24
Str.date....: 2020-08-07
Quality.....: 905kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://www.lielamoss.com
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1. Turn Your Back Around 3:33
2. Watching the Wolf 3:15
3. Atoms at Me 3:53
4. Always Sliding 3:48
5. The Individual 3:31
6. White Feather 3:28
7. Battlefield 4:21
8. Nummah 4:09
9. Suako 3:52
10. Stolen Careful 3:43
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,: Over the past couple of years and one very warmly received LP, :,
: Duke Spirit member and Bella Union solo artiste Liela Moss - :
:' watch your vowel placement with care, folks - has carved ':
,: herself something of a niche for a strong and dark pop draught, :,
: heady with intensity, 80s' melodicism, courage and a complete :
:' willingness to pick away at the sometimes painful wounds of her ':
,: subject matter. :,
: :
:' She released her second for Bella Union, Who The Power, on ':
,: Friday, August 7th. And it follows faithfully her remit of :,
: drawing what positivity we can from a pretty screwed-up and :
:' negative tableaux: "If you're going to deconstruct the modern ':
,: psyche," she says, "you might as well dance to it." :,
: :
:' And there's no doubting the strength of her intent on opener ':
,: "Turn Your Back Around", the video you can see on her YouTube :,
: site. Big tribal tom polyrhythms skitter in under widescreen :
:' synth washes, Liela intoning with power over all. ':
,: :,
: Watch her, hooded and screened, give it free and flexing :
:' movement in the ballet studio; and is it only me, or is that ':
,: surging chorus breathing new life into a bruised and starcrossed :,
: pop sound we've not heard since Pet Benatar's "Love is a :
:' Battlefield"? "I didn't think I would miss you in this life," ':
,: she pays off. You'd be quaking were it you in her sights. :,
: :
:' She says of the song, which she released as a final taster for ':
,: the album: "It's almost game over for the planet. I'm enjoying :,
: one filthy, upbeat, downhearted close-your-eyes-and-dance :
:' by-yourself pop song and offering it as a parting gift to ':
,: Mother Earth. :,
: :
:' "It's a lament, at an urgent bpm." ':
,: :,
: Let's raise a final glass as the band plays one last song. :
:' ':
,: "Watching the Wolf" is a heavy synth grind, dark and sexy, :,
: threatening. It concerns the intensified struggle of modern :
:' life: "Take, take you down / By pulling myself the front." She ':
,: isn't afraid to drop the C-bomb at her nemesis. Watch that line :,
: get sung out when she's out gigging, in the AfterThis. :
:' ':
,: "Atoms at Me" rocks; yearns; seeks. "I need to break out in the :,
: open," Liela sings, and boy ain't we all felt that this summer. :
:' Crawl those walls. Synths pulse brightly and guitars shriek in ':
,: the distance. It sets up for the deep, arch-gothic drama of :,
: "Always Sliding" which, to me, has a real Russian thing. It lets :
:' Liela's vocal soar through the deep cloudbank and find light ':
,: above. :,
: :
:' "White Feather" steers back towards the sound of Bella Union's ':
,: boss Simon Raymonde's former home, 4AD, with big, effects-pedal :,
: guitar shimmer, a perfect springboard for her to fly on the :
:' chorus. "The predator is you," she glides. Note, as with ':
,: "Watching the Wolf", the invocation of dreamstate archetypes, :,
: the darkness within a whisper of where you might be right now. :
:' ':
,: Corresponding with "Watching the Wolf" in a different way is the :,
: "Battlefield". It's dark and down round your hips; it seems to :
:' rise from that exact moment when the hurt of a love begins to ':
,: crystallise as new power, the rejection of pain; that first :,
: snarl of rebirth. It's big and unashamedly so; it's gonna kill :
:' it live (Yes, I am yearning for the tremendous catharsis of the ':
,: live show; aren't you?). :,
: :
:' "Nummah" sees Liela right on the top of that amazing vocal ':
,: power she's gifted with. She's proper vulnerable here. Does she :,
: know her subject enough to give them her trust? All the while a :
:' very British circa æ81 synth chatter folds in around her, ':
,: shadowy, tipping towards distortion, pacing it out. :,
: :
:' "Suako" is rockist, proud, has a really European vocal melody ':
,: in that middle interval: exotic, seductive, and it breaks into :,
: full graceful flight; and hear closer "Stolen Careful" and fail :
:' to be moved, I dares ya; it drops you back so quickly you have ':
,: to quickly consider and feel just where she's taken you. It ebbs :,
: like mercury and you're back on shore suddenly without that dark :
:' light as a guide. ':
,: :,
: If you had Liela's voice you could sing any sort of troubles :
:' away. In that she stands for us, is in some ways our ':
,: soothsayer; she tells stories, scoops them from her soul, says :,
: it hard and true. :
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