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Franco-Mexican artist, singer, instrumentalist, and producer Andrea Balency demonstrates a growth in style, experience, and quality with the Volcano EP. Each track on this new EP expresses a high resolution of sounds entwining as if it were easy, and displays a rich, mature, strong vocal ability quite evolved from Balency's beginnings in the "cutely-breathy females" scene (The Guardian). Balency's talent is undeniable, and puts her in the same musical league as Cocteau Twins, Björk and Jessy Lanza. Take, for example, her unrecognizable cover of John Martyn's "Please Fall in Love With Me."
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"You've Never Been Alone," co-produced by Rob McAndrews aka Airhead and mixed by Stéphane "Alf" Briat (Air, Phoenix, Sébastien Tellier, Françoise Hardy, etc.), is an original continental answer to the UK-based scene of what The Guardian called "eerily spacious R&B-sung-by-cutely-breathy females." With its interrupted, intricately detailed, and effects-washed sound, "You've Never Been Alone" is an idiosyncratic yet fiercely melodic and groove-based pop hit. Andrea Balency uses a smorgasbord of sounds to explore relationships, restlessness, and dislocation. File this ethereal deep soul dubstep next to FKA Twigs, Little Dragon, The XX, and Sbtrkt, with some Cocteau Twins and Kate Bush reminiscences.
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