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Amaya Laucirica
Rituals
(Opposite Number)
★★★★
FOR Australian musician Amaya Laucirica, her fourth album, which she began writing in Berlin, “sounds like that time of starting again.”
Heavy on synths and exploring themes of frustration, acceptance, time, loss and love, it’s an immersive, sprawling set of dream pop.
Spacious songs like Under the Tide and single All of our Time highlight a debt to the breezy melodies of legendary fellow Oz songsmiths The Go-Betweens, while Laucirica’s gorgeous reverb-laden vocals bring to mind Mazzy Star and the ethereal Scottish indie group the Cocteau Twins.
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