Rose Elinor Dougall - Stellular (Limited) (2017) [FLAC]

  Genre: Rock
  Style: Indie Pop
  Source: Bonus Edition CD (log + cue)
  Codec: FLAC
  Bit rate: ~ 1,000 kbps
  Bit depth: 16
  Sample rate: 44.1 kHz
 
  01 Colour Of Water 
  02 Strange Warnings
  03 Stellular 
  04 Closer 
  05 Take Yourself With You 
  06 All At Once 
  07 Answer Me 
  08 Dive 
  09 Poison Ivy 
  10 Hell And Back 
  11 Space To Be 
  12 Wanderer 

  Bonus Tracks

  13 All At Once (Tom Furse Extrapolation)
  14 Before We're Strangers (Demo Version)
  15 Suspended (Demo Version)
  16 All At Once (Martin Dubka Remix)

  Rose Elinor Dougall's second record under her own name should help erase all the modifiers added to her name. 2017's Stellular is impressive enough that she no longer need be referred to as a former Pipette. It's a brilliant enough album that she doesn't need her association with Mark Ronson be the first thing people talk about, either. Her first album under her own name, 2010's Without Why?, was good, sometimes even great, but this one positions her as a force to be reckoned with on the modern pop scene. Teaming with Boxed In's Oli Bayston, the duo have crafted a bright and sophisticated sound that's full of shiny synths and Dougall's luminous vocals. The album is made up of slick disco tracks, introspective space pop almost-ballads, dramatic wonky pop jams, and the kind of warm, richly hued pop songs that feel like a warm embrace on a cold day. It's not a million miles from her former bandmate Gwenno's work on her 2015 album Y Dydd Olaf, but where that had a sleek, machine-driven heart, Stellular is mostly powered by the sound of real drums and crisply played stringed instruments. It makes for a less cosmic sound, more down to earth and emotionally grounded