(Dead Forest Records, 2022)
From a rocky island covered in moorland on the edge of the North Atlantic comes an album that shows the maturation of a major talent. 'Wilderness of Life' is a collection of reflective songs that incorporates the influences of many kinds of music, from dream pop to goth to post-punk to folk, with frequent nods to the lilting traditional Celtic music of Murray's homeland, Scotland. Veering between darkly moody dirges to sweeping, almost uplifting melodic pop, this is an album of uncompromising emotional intensity. Haunting, sometimes bleak imagery is employed in the service of describing the thoughts of a troubled soul, of loss, longing and the desperate desire for a meaningful life. No singer-songwriter of today navigates the landscape of isolation with as much poignancy as Ali Murray.
- Allister Thompson
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''This album is a dark lonely introspective journey through ambiguous dreamscapes. Murray constantly manages to tap into something deep, dark and uncomfortable... but somehow turns it all into wonderful dreamy pop music. The atmospheres and soundscapes within the album are exactly how I imagine the Isle of Lewis to be - cold, barren and beautiful... ''
- Fog Songs
''The songs are full of imagery, nature reimagined as pain, the loneliness of the Cosmos painted in sound on a skyscraper guitar...dark hymns to loneliness, heartbreak, and emotional turmoil, with enduring hope in the face of adversity.''
- Monolith Cocktail
''A gentle chaotic listen...a portrait of an intriguing under-the-radar songwriter''
- Rosy Overdrive''
It's like it was recorded under a heavy overcast and the overbearing density of the atmosphere somehow fused with the tape. It's a facet of the production that lends the songs a semblance of pondering melancholy that interacts encouragingly with the lyrics. The vast majority of which hover in tense suspension over the sheer drop of a rocky shore- searching the horizon for clarity with one foot over the ledge of a cliff and the other chained to the hope of this world.''
- I Thought I Heard A Sound
Stream/Buy/Download :
https://alimurray.bandcamp.com/album/wilderness-of-life---
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