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Martha Rose

Undress & Dive After

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Treibender Teppich)

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Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Martha Rose is a Berlin based English musician. Her music is a combination of casio pop and old English folk song. Melodies rule and lyrics slowly reveal. "Spit" was her debut LP, released on limited vinyl through Treibender Teppich Records, who do present new album as well. For fiends of: Joanna Newsom, Broadcast, Cat Power, Tom Brosseau, Angel Olsen, St Vincent, Independent, Casio-Pop, FolkpopAlbum info:The title 'Undress & Dive After' comes from the lyrics of an old English folk song called "Hares on the Mountain." It represents situations piled up upon each other, with new metaphors expressing the same thing again and again - the hopeless desire of women to pursure the men they are interested in. "If all you young men were fish in the water, how many young girls would undress and dive after?" This album title informed the recording and writing process of 'Undress & Dive After' from the beginning. Martha Rose's lyrics consistently follow through the threads of the heart, the intertwining of desire and loss, and evoke a medieval valour in the pursuit of true love. There is always a scent of the unattainable crush - "I'm such a liar, but it's just cos I love ya" - permeating Martha Rose's work. "My Heart Still Beats 4 U" expresses melancholy frustration in the recurring nightmare of love always expressed too late, or too little.In 'Iron Age Daydream' we see a metaphysical expansion of her emotional universe into a fusion of visions and thoughts. 'Fine to be alone, naked underneath my clothes', Rose laconically explores and links up themes of awkward holiday plans, infuriating day jobs, the taste of blood in wounds that don't hurt anymore, the imagined memory of ancient civilisations, jars of unborn embryos in the natural history museum, the fantastical worlds of E.T.A Hoffman and Georges Bataille. It ends back where it started, with rolling, foaming milk, conjuring daydreams and burning seas.There are odes dedicated to the creative vision of a beloved school friend (Keep a Par...

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