Music News - Princess Chelsea announces her new album and shares a video
27 September 2016 - 0 Comments
Lil’ Chief Records are delighted to
present on October 14 2016 Aftertouch; a
collection of covers by Princess Chelsea recorded
between 2010-2016.
Chelsea uses covers as a way to experiment with production and arrangement
ideas in between albums and Aftertouch is a curious
invitation to hear the development of a musical palette over five years.
It features covers by local artists Lawrence Arabia,
an unreleased Disasteradio song
(Aftertouch) and songs by Marianne Faithfull, Lucinda Williams, Nirvana and of course Elvis
Presley.
Its first single Morning Sun is an early Marianne
Faithfull single from 1965. The original is a chamber pop
gem featuring harp, flute and Marianne Faithfull’s precise and deadpan
delivery. Chelsea has transformed the arrangement into something out of
Stranger Things series 2 vs Twin Peaks, but decided it was important to keep
the flute.
The music video is a hark back to Princess Chelsea’s DIY days and was filmed by Jonathan Bree (who made the infamous Cigarette Duet video) on the island of Rarotonga at a long abandoned resort. It features a
friendly stray dog - unfortunately local three legged dog Tripod was nowhere to
be found on filming day.
Pre-order Aftertouch from iTunes with instant grats of the following tracks: Cold Glass Tube, And I Love Her & Morning Sun.
Die-hard fans may notice that early covers
(And I Love
Her 2010) present building blocks for ideas used in later
recordings of original material (Goodnight
Little Robot Child from
Lil’ Golden Book 2011).
The title track Aftertouch- is a song by Wellington based Disasteradio (also responsible for the album art)- and while performed live
is currently unreleased. A banger of a track - Chelsea plays a
post-modern Madonna to Disasteradio’s nostalgic disco-synths. Those who pay
attention will notice a Reduction Agents cover featured in the Lil’ Chief
tribute album released recently.
Jonathan Bree (Lil'
Chief chief / The Brunettes) has lent a hand on production
for nearly all of these tracks - Nikkel and Bree seem to have fine-tuned their
working chemistry after two albums together. Earlier self produced tracks likeAnd I Love Her and Come As You Are may not have the sonic fine-tuning of
Bree’s magic wand but still posses a naive charm.
Chelsea says:
“The ‘Princess Chelsea’ sound is something I’ve spent years developing and is
heavily based on arrangement. I’ve spent hundreds of hours fine tuning an
instrumental palette and one of the ways I do that is by recording covers of my
favourite songs. The common theme amongst all these songs is quite simply
good songwriting - I always cover songs that move me emotionally and hope that
the songwriting might rub off on me a little bit. Those nearer to my age group
will hopefully be as moved by an Interpol cover as most people should be by the
most beautiful song in the world Can’t Help Falling In Love With You."
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