LUMP – a collaboration between London singer-songwriter Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay (Domino Publishing) of the band Tunng – return with their second album, ‘Animal’, on Partisan/Chrysalis.
Half cute, half dark and creepy, the songs Marling and Lindsay create as LUMP are unlike anything from either of their respective other projects. Marling’s lyrics are spontaneous, immediate, and playful (she drew heavily on her interest in psychoanalysis). Meanwhile Lindsay creates an access...
LUMP – a collaboration between London singer-songwriter Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay (Domino Publishing) of the band Tunng – return with their second album, ‘Animal’, on Partisan/Chrysalis.
Half cute, half dark and creepy, the songs Marling and Lindsay create as LUMP are unlike anything from either of their respective other projects. Marling’s lyrics are spontaneous, immediate, and playful (she drew heavily on her interest in psychoanalysis). Meanwhile Lindsay creates an accessible electronic palette that borders on psychedelic. ‘Animal’ was recorded at Lindsay’s home studio in Margate, Kent and primarily constructed around his Eventide H949 Harmonizer, the same pitch-shifter David Bowie used on ‘Low.’
As with the first album, Marling would arrive in the studio without having heard any of Lindsay’s music, with the hope that it would bring the lyrics an immediacy and a spontaneity. There were other sources of inspiration for Marling aside from psychoanalysis: half-memories, family stories, strange dreams; things she had read, or been told or imagined. “LUMP is so the repository for so many things that I’ve had in my mind and just don’t fit anywhere in that way,” she explains. “They don’t have to totally make narrative sense, but weirdly they end up making narrative sense in some way.”
While creating ‘Animal,’ Marling was simultaneously working on her widely acclaimed, Mercury Prize and Grammy Award nominated solo album ‘Song For Our Daughter,’ and so working on LUMP material felt liberating and distinct. “It became a very different thing about escaping a persona that has become a burden to me in some way. It was like putting on a superhero costume.” She even goes as far as to say that sometimes it feels as if she might be “edging Laura Marling off a cliff as much as I can and putting LUMP in the centre.”
Lindsay adds, “There’s a little bit of a theme of hedonism on the album, of desires running wild. We created LUMP as a sort of persona and an idea and a creature. Through LUMP we find our inner animal, and through that animal we travel into a parallel universe.”
LUMP’s debut earned praise from The Guardian, Pitchfork, Needle Drop + more, with Under the Radar praising the record for its “seamless sense of direction…a living, breathing piece of art.”
LUMP has also detailed a short UK tour that will follow the record’s release, including a night at the Scala in London on the 6th September.
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