Music News - The Loving Arms release their debut album Dreaming Over You Friday March 3
08 February 2023 - 0 Comments
Ghost Records NZ is proud to announce the forthcoming release of Dreaming Over You, the debut album by Auckland five-piece The Loving Arms.
This is music for heart-broken adults after the storm. In a world gone wrong, The Loving Arms offer safe harbour, a soft landing, a warm bed, a place to dry your tears, nurse your hangover and pull yourself together. It’s not the end of the world, but if this is how it ends, here’s the album to take with you.
These are songs of love, yearning, forgiveness, and folly by people who’ve been there. Thanks to producer Kerry Furlong, the album is lush, and pretty – but remains emotionally vivid, each song like being dropped at random into the third act of a movie where stakes are high, the action intense and the ending could go either way.
In another era, this might be labelled soft rock, and while it’s true the ghost of Christine McVie could be said to haunt a couple of these numbers, there’s nothing middle of the road about the band’s approach. Working from a basic country-soul palette of piano, guitar, bass and drums, the band has worked up the material into something altogether genre defying. There’s a musical and lyrical sting in the tail of these love songs, and an emotional gut punch lurking beneath the lush harmonies and AOR stylings of the album.
Listeners will have their own points of reference for this music – from alt-balladeers like Lambchop or Tindersticks, to Nick Cave and Neil Finn. But they’re as likely to hear the influence of The Bee Gees or Warren Zevon, The Carpenters or John Cale – maybe even The Flaming Lips. Which is to say the album’s a rich brew of diverse musical influences, tied together by memorable songs, spirited playing and Furlong’s detailed cinematic textures. There’s a dreamlike quality to this production that, at times, (particularly on piano-led tracks like Angel in Disgrace), can evoke albums like Lana Del Ray's Norman Fucking Rockwell or Sea Breeze.
In 2023, the world might not think it needs a new album of gorgeous 70's influenced ballads. The Loving Arms' Dreaming Over You makes the case that it absolutely does.
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The Loving Arms Dreaming Over You release party
Sunday March 5th
Big Fan, 25 McDonald St
Morningside, Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau
Tickets at Under the Radar
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