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Release Date: 2022-10-06Label: AntiFragile Music
From email upon release:"Hello friends!
We released our latest single 'The Laundress' this week. You can listen to it on all the usual platforms and watch our visualiser through the link below. We recorded this song in Wales at the beautiful and remote Studiowz with our friend Gethin Pearson.
With this track we were looking for a fun, pop sound but with industrial and textural elements inspired by the likes of Suicide and Tuxedo Moon.
We had so much fun making these interesting sounds in the studio. The whole track started on a two note loop played on the Wurlitzer. The drum sound was a hybrid of programmed electronic and an acoustic VK kit with lots of trashing and looping of sounds through a Hawk Reverb unit. Niall even played a rattling steel mop bucket at one point."
When Thinking post:
"We very much wanted this to be a conceptual song using the visual imagery of a washer woman cleaning stains out of her clothes as a metaphor for washing ones own pain away. Cleaning is something I find very therapeutic as a process. When I’m anxious or don’t want to overthink, I clean the house. When I was twenty and on a J1 Student Visa in Boston, my friend Suzy and I worked as cleaners at a very swanky hotel. The work was extremely demanding and fast paced but the satisfaction of a clean room and the camaraderie between all of us cleaning women was moving, even life affirming. In more recent times, my friend Sinead gave me a book by Lucia Berlin called 'A Manuel for Cleaning Women' which became my favourite book for its stories of imperfect women, hardworking women, strength and vulnerability. Cleaning stains and blemishes from clothes reflects my desire to clean up my brain's anxiety, rumination and self-criticism. The Magdalene Laundries also come to mind, the treacherous workhouses that unmarried, pregnant women were sent to in Ireland to clean tirelessly for their “sins”. And so, maybe my method of cleaning for relaxation is rooted in misogyny and religion but that’s something I’ll explore another day.
Love,
Aoife."