Norwich-based Maria Uzor releases her debut solo album Soft Cuts via Castles In Space on October 13.
It’s a stunning album – electronic, eclectic and esoteric – clearly revelling in its own diversity and willfulness, but also heavily loaded with some absolute stone-cold bangers. Ventolin is the first single taken from the album.
"This was actually the first song I wrote for the album back in November 2022.", Maria explains. "It came together really quickly, like 10 minutes or something, and the final version isn’t much different from the demo, just with added guitars. It’s a playful tongue-in-cheek nod to my fellow asthmatics."
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released July 4, 2023
Written, produced and mixed by Maria Uzor.
Mastered by Dean Honer.
Published by Mute Song.
Photography by Andi Sapey.
Artwork by Maria Uzor.
This is as good as the officially released WRNTDP titles on CIS. Very pleased to pick it up, where the pieces here are longer than most on the records they benefit from the slow unwinding they are afforded. The 18 minute live set excerpt is particularly immersive. Wouldn't be the worst idea in the world to release this on vinyl as a companion to the inevitable repressing of This Nation's Most Central Location. Great stuff. Oh and you get a cool magazine to read as well. Awesome. shaun rogan
This is very close to what I heard/felt everytime we visited the grandparents in Runcorn.
Ominous dread. Bleak dystopia. Concrete and terraced houses. Plus the air smells! MonkeyMajiks
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