Laurance tries to reconcile the visionary ideals and technological innovations Madsen made with the destruction that was “left in its wake.”Īfter a short intro track (Promenade) that merely hints at what is to follow we are into our first song proper. Founder of Copenhagen’s rocket building scene, Peter Madsen murdered a journalist (Kim Wall) who had come to interview him on board his home-made submarine.

Lizzy says that she always felt there was “something rotten about the place” before she eventually uncovered that she was living at the site of the infamous Copenhagen Submarine murder of 2018. She lived alone on the boat and made a number of field recordings that would form the basis of the songs featured on the album, not just from a musical perspective but from a storytelling perspective too. The concept for the album came together while Laurance was artist in residence at Illutron, an arts and technology institute situated on an 800ft dredging boat in Copenhagen. This is by no means an exercise in simply showing adulation for her heroes, she simply uses them to inspire and inform her own original sounding material. Her inspirations are varied and thought-provoking, Lizzy cites David Lynch, Lana Del Ray and Godspeed You! Black Emperor as key influences on the sound of her album, and whilst this may sound like a disparate selection of artists, you can hear a little bit of each in the music, as well as a whole lot of herself. Lizzy explores “the mythology of pop music and the icons who inhabit it”, through stories of “female identity, image-making and toxic masculinity”. In creating her music, she uses found sounds, ambient electronics, library samples, and electronic beats stitching them together to create atmospheric aural soundscapes. Lizzy is a London based electronic musician who create “grainy pop-collages inspired by spatial locations inner, outer and cyber”. Anyway, now that’s out of the way lets get down to Lizzy and her suitably impressive debut release. I would like to start by apologising to Lizzy for the delay in posting this review, however, a series of health issues and time constraints have held things up, which I hope are gradually coming to an end. Lizzy Laurance’s debut album, Rocketman was released April 30 th of this year.

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