Description
Label Review.
2020 album. Also available on Vinyl.
Our Overview.
Hailing from Auckland, New Zealand, indie-pop trailblazers The Naked and Famous launch their fourth album ‘Recover’ which represents a new era for the band, and reasserts them as one of the most exciting sonic trailblazers, taking them to emotionally inspired depths, while maintaining the fresh effervescence that has charged their previous records.
‘Recover’ is largely an autobiographical record rooted in a powerful sentiment of survival, and of the very human process of self-preservation - of saving, choosing and celebrating oneself in a world constantly trying to put us down. Each song is carefully crafted with an important messages ranging from the sentiment of survival (“Death”), touching on topics of self-identity (“Well-Rehearsed”), resilience (“Recover”), mortality (“(An)Aesthetic”) written by Thom about his near-death experience with blood poisoning) and the things that affect our lives in ways we never anticipated (“Sunseeker”).
Leading members Alisa Xayalith and Thom Powers met while attending music college. They put out the EPs ‘This Machine’ and ‘No Light’ in 2008, then made their full-length debut with ‘Passive Me, Aggressive You’ which featured their breakthrough hit “Young Blood” in 2010. Of the new record, Thom Powers says “‘Recover’ is about the duo, recovering ourselves, and our artistic vessel. The album is a statement of creative healing and a vehicle to plow forward into our own future. We hope that the messages of healing and resilience have some effect on its listeners.”
Tracklisting: Recover / Sunseeker / Bury Us / Easy / Come as you Are / Everybody Knows / Echoes in the Dark / Well-Rehearsed / Monument / Death / Count on You / Muscle Memory / The Sound of My Voice / (An)aesthetic / Coming Back to Me