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Recently named‘Best Alternative Artist’ at the 2022AotearoaMusicAwards, Wellington-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalistVeraEllenhas released her new album,Ideal Home Noise viaFlyingNunRecords.
Ideal Home Noiseis a record unearthed from much introspection and an attempt to find some comedy and lightness in an otherwise dark period forVeraEllen. With two "voices” battling throughout the album, the instrumentation is sometimes light — featuring synths and electronic drums — and sometimes heavy — with ballad-like piano and raw vocals.
After the critical success of her 2021 album,It’s Your Birthday— which earned the artist both the‘Best Alternative Artist’ award at the 2022AMA’sas well as a 2022TaiteAwardnomination — Vera’s momentum is unstoppable with her new 13 track album raring to go.“If It's Your Birthday was about relationships and love and strife between myself and others; then Ideal Home Noise is about love and strife between myself and myself.“.
The record was tracked at Wellington studio,TheSurgery, with the talented multi-instrumentalistBenLemi(ofTrinity Roots, French For RabbitsandDawnDiverfame) on production and engineering duties.“Ben helped bring the record to life from my initial demos in a very organic way”says Vera.
On the name of the upcoming album,Ideal Home Noise,Vera explains that she came across the phrase in a book, while house-sitting a Malibu property formerly occupied by The Beach Boys. Since then, the words have been recycled through various notebooks and phone apps, somehow remaining in the artist’s subconscious all these years later.
In a very personal statement aboutIdeal Home Noise, Vera Ellen has summarised“My songs have been my friends, my lovers, my enemies. I have been their biggest critic and fan and they have been mine. And as for this album, you will hear my pain up close, but you can take comfort knowing I wouldn't trade it for the world. So here we go, to another album. One of many more (I hope).”
Ideal Home Noiseis out digitally and on both red or black vinyl and CD viaFlyingNunRecords.
TRACKLISTING:
SIDE A
Imposter
Homewrecker
Smell of an Oily Rag
Carpenter
A Grip
Fake Milk
Cheerios
SIDE B
Feelings I Can’t Name
Lenny Says
A Person I Like
Prayer Ambulance
Broadway/Junction
Stick Around To See
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