“Astronomy, a shoegaze alt-pop extravaganza featuring Miriam’s angelic voice accompanied by her penchant for hook-filled chord progressions and poetic lyrics”
Ryan Martin, Jammerzine (review of Astronomy) [US]
• Miriam Clancy • Astronomy September 27
New York-based New Zealander Miriam Clancy returns with Astronomy.
After a decade between records, Clancy’s upcoming third album, Astronomy, is her first official full-length album stateside, but for longtime fans, Astronomy is a reintroduction and a reinvention. Its ten songs represent a cathartic fork in the road borne out of existential crisis and the new territory is evident. Crafted over a couple of years in New York City with producer Chris Coady (Beach House, Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Astronomy is laden with swooning electric guitars, Wurlitzers, early 90’s drum machines and analogue synths.
Inspired by time spent on Great Barrier Island in New Zealand amidst writing the record, the record’s title and overarching ambience references the island’s unparalleled view of the stars as a Dark Sky Sanctuary. “It would wrap around you and lift you into the cosmos,” Clancy adds. “It’s amazing how something so far from earth can affect us and give a sense of perspective… it’s the great equalizer.”
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“Miriam Clancy announces her return with noise and urgency…the dreamy track with its eerie shoegaze guitars… There’s both an evanescent beauty and a dose of strength and self-confidence to the track, a combo that makes it assuredly magic and elusive.”
Arnaud Marty, High Clouds (review of The Bells) [US]
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“…her dream theater aesthetic of The Sound will transport you…with deep cut bass, drum grooves and dreamy synths… It is a blend of post punk, 80’s new wave, goth, baroque pop and magic itself.”
Robb Dunker, American Pancake [US]
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“With hints of Cocteau Twins and CHRVCHES entwined in the song, it has a bass line that reverberates and rolls like an unexpected thunderstorm on a summer’s day.”
Mark Buckley, Analogue Trash (review of The Sound) [UK]
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