“An easy meandering sound which not only evokes the river next to which it was created, but in its direct, imperfect immediacy, feels porous to the entire surrounding environment.” That’s how we described ‘Blue Eyed Open Sky’, the lead single from Richard Tripps‘s forthcoming album, Between the Morning. Coming next month via Perpetual Doom and Plume Records, the record sees the songwriter and multi instrumentalist channel the lo-fi aesthetic of The Range of Light, The Velvet Underground, White Fence and early Oh Sees in order to better evoke the environment where the songs were conceived. Because Tripp took to his tent cabin in Big Sur to record what he originally intended to be demos, but soon discovered the lo-fi style allowed a sense of place to bleed in. So instead he leant into the style and embraced what came to be the record’s spirit.
New single ‘Between The Morning’ fashions this style into an exploration of the pressures of modern living. Be it the demands of work or keeping people happy, day to day life makes a myriad of demands of us which can soon become overwhelming. Tripps leads us through this psychically damaging experience with his characteristic laidback charm. What results is a languorous sound which both evokes the draining experience of such mental stress and acts as its antithesis, leading the audience away from the busy environment of their heads and towards something more expansive and peaceful.
Between The Morning is out on the 5th July via Perpetual Doom and Plume Records and you can pre-order it now.
