Label: Horn of Plenty

Horn of Plentyからは三作目となる音源!!オーストラリアはシドニーにて活動、2009年頃から非常に良いペースで作品出版を続けている人気作家のMatthew Hopkins、氏のアルバム・ジャケットデザインを手掛けつつ自身も音楽活動を行ってきたMary MacDougall、男女コンビWarm Currencyとしてローファイなフォークアルバムを発表しているデュオの最新作。楽曲全体に織り交ぜられたテープ及びラジオノイズを背景にスポークンワードの様なボーカルが揺蕩い、柔らかなフィンガーピッキングのアコギ、またピアノのメロディーと共に不明瞭に進行。毎度の如く寂れたテクスチャーが美しい。







Warm Currency—the duo of Australian artists/musicians MP Hopkins and Mary MacDougall—return for their third release on Horn Of Plenty, following up Returns (2022) and Live at the Petersham Bowling Club (2023).

On Petals, the pair’s haunting folk music comes into sharper focus while broadening their sonic palette. Spoken word meets chanted incantations, gently fingerpicked acoustic guitar is placed alongside spindly piano melodies, the creak of floorboards in the background mirrors the creak of fingerprints dragged across guitar strings.

Woven throughout are bursts of tape-recorded radio static that reveal hardly distinguishable voices while MacDougall sings of equally fleeting phenomena. Winds, breezes, and mists rattle through houses and crumbling cityscapes throughout, with objects in a constant state of flux: growing, burning, drying, rotting, or unfurling. Such cryptic suggestions and surreal imagery evade easy parsing but like a poignant dream linger with the listener.

-Mitch L.l Ryan

Mary MacDougall: piano, keyboards, vocals

MP Hopkins: guitars, stringed instruments.

Recorded and mixed by Warm Currency on Wurundjeri and Wangal land.