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Release Date: 17 May 2024
Label: Exploding In Sound Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 843563174340
Genres: Indie Alternative
Description
Miranda Winters, as the voice of Chicago's much-loved noisemakers Melkbelly, has spent the past few years happily in her own shadow - While she has quietly written and occasionally released her own music for 15 years, Winters finally steps out into the bright light with the release of Lawn Girl, the debut album under her Mandy moniker.
The album, a combination of older songs and newer creations, feels positively and endearingly alive-like a freeing of pent-up energy, an intimate rebuilding of the self. While Winters recorded and produced a number of the songs herself, she worked with Taylor Hales at Electrical Audio to feed those songs back into the studio, where they were re-recorded with room mics and worked back into the original versions. "I see it like photocopying," she says of the process. "I've always loved working with photocopying and related printing techniques in my visual art because of the way everything decays and falls apart.
It was nice to honor that on the record." Performed by an all-women band-Linda Sherman (guitar), Lizz Smith (bass) and Wendy Zeldin (drums)-the songs on Lawn Girl suitably find Winters ruminating on the idea of femininity; about her mom (who graces the album cover) and being a mother herself; her female friends; and what it means and what is required to make art and music in a female space intentionally.
Tracklisting
Babe Report
Baked
Pile
Knot
Dig Nitty
Baked
Pile
Water From Your Eyes
Mandy, Indiana
Mandy, Indiana
