Name: Lost In Light
Brand: Sumie

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

bella597cd

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-11-10

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5414939965791

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Sumie

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

Label GB

Bella Union

For a singer-songwriter, the benefit of starting from a point of quiet is the room it allows for manoeuvre afterwards. Such is the case with the subtly cinematic second album from Sandra Sumie Nagano, Lost in Light via Bella Union. On 2013’s eponymous debut, Sumie tapped into the mid-point between Scandinavian and Japanese folk music to deliver an album of blissful restraint, its quietude shaped by a combination of parenthood and natural inclination. The follow-up is an album of stealthy dynamism, drama and mystery, its impact made all the greater because it skirts obvious routes to dance just out of hand’s reach, always seeming to be on the verge of departure. Nocturnal partings underpin the Leonard Cohen-ish Blue Lines, where Sumie’s voice rings out sweet and pure over a plucked guitar. The soulful Pouring Down finds her singing of “cold rivers” over warm keys, while Frö (“seed”) occupies a world unto itself, existing in a state of suspended rapture. Leave Me luxuriates over warm violins, recalling separations under “skies in black”. The mood is impeccably sustained for the gorgeously lilting The Only Lady, a riff on US-indie filmmaker Miranda July’s novel The First Bad Man, with quotes from David Bowie’s sweetly loved-up Kooks included. To close, Walk Away offers a final reverie on departures, its aching trumpet and plucked guitar building to the gentlest of crescendos. Lost in Light is a screen-style dream of an album itself: immersive while it lasts, haunting after it flickers out of view.

LP - White Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Download.

Lost In Light

Music GB