I've not done one of these for a while so it's probably about time
I shared with you what I've been adoringly shovelling into my ears by the
bucket load. Ides is perhaps best known because she is
Alana McArdle, lead singer of Cardiff's noisiest indie-pop rabble - Joanna
Gruesome.
On 'Prisms', in the absence of her four band mates, McArdle is
almost unrecognisable. There is a vulnerability to the lonely partnership
of young woman and guitar as she gently calls out "simple things,
they make no sense to me". Perhaps ironically it is the songs beautiful
simplicity that gives it a sweet and relatable charm. McArdle's
heart-breaking sincerity, as she sings, "I hope that you're as happy
as can be", seems to cover a deep frustration revealed as the song softly
floats away on a gently flowing river of humming feedback.
Ides four minutes of tender bliss is available as part of Art Is
Hard records' 2013 postcard
club, where the download is accompanied by a beautiful postcard.
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