Kenney, Madeline: New Reality Mind
Kenney, Madeline: New Reality Mind
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Kenney, Madeline
Label: Carpark Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 677517016819
Genre: Rock
In the quiet surrounding the pandemic, Madeline Kenney made sonic sketches in the basement studio she shared with her then-partner. She arranged phrases that called her-the sharp knife of a synth cutting a path along a blooming arpeggio, drums stuttering firm and tight. Working this way, she amassed a collection of songs she had no particular aims for. Some formed her 2021 EP Summer Quarter, others languished. But in 2022, Kenney's partner left suddenly and without warning, plunging her into the solitary act of untangling what happened. In the wake of her ensuing depression, she revisited these songs and found in them something prescient. She'd already laid the foundation for A New Reality Mind. That her relationship's end came without warning is only half true, though. The warnings were in the feelings and fears that inspired Kenney's critically-acclaimed third album, Sucker's Lunch, which was centered around the idea of flinging oneself freely into the seemingly-assured destruction of new love, come what may. If sonically Sucker's Lunch was letting yourself be pulled into the warm bath of a good story, A New Reality Mind reflects the harsh light of truth coming to break the spell. Rather than reckoning with love lost, the songs on A New Reality Mind grapple with the self that chose to fall. Notions of sight and vision pervade the record as Kenney stands before the infinity mirror of selves she's been to preserve bonds in her life. "I, like everyone else, am muddling through my most ordinary disaster of a life," she acknowledges, a sentiment which reverberates through album opener "Plain Boring Disaster." We may all be doomed to repetitive, ordinary heartbreaks, Kenney realizes, but at least we can cultivate a capacity to witness our missteps and build new realities for ourselves.
Tracks:
1.1 Intro
1.2 Plain Boring Disaster
1.3 Superficial Conversation
1.4 Reality Mind
1.5 I Drew a Line
1.6 It Carries on
1.7 Red Emotion
1.8 The Same Again
1.9 Hfam
1.10 Leaves Me Dry
1.11 Expectations
