maxine funke: felt

New vinyl edition of this amazing & instantly out of print album, originally released in NZ as a tiny 100 copy edition in 2012. While Maxine's earlier Lace album unfolds as a more externalized & psychedelic experience, here everything focuses inwards with an utterly beautiful, lulling, tidal tranquility. Overflowing with warmth & humble magic, like watching dust dance in a beam of sunlight through an open window. A kind of intimate microcosmic observation of the everyday, stretching the tiniest joys & subtlest quirks of life into something truly poetic and timeless. The songwriting is deep & revelatory, yet totally raw & unforced. Fully in the 'now' but also completely part of the infinite, like it's been pulled directly from the vague spaces between time & place themselves? stillness in motion? a sparse 4-track home-fi recording, with a gauzy analog mist ever present & the sounds of the environment gently creeping in. Sublimely wonderful stuff here, with plenty of that unique New Zealand magic. Direct, pure & unforgettable, in the most lovely way? packaged in a totally hand assembled fold-out art paper cover with screen printed text & pasted artwork, nicely matching the Lace covers. Edition of 300 copies.