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‘There is magic in the world. There’s something bigger’: the ecstatic visions of musician Clarissa Connelly
Recalling Kate Bush and Perfume Genius, the Copenhagen-via-Scotland artist blends the ancient and avant garde – and finds revelation in loss and death
Her self-produced second album, World of Work, questions whether those feelings are “magic, or just our brain going crazy?” she says, chatting exuberantly in front of a Georgia O’Keeffe print in her new flat in Copenhagen. Her debut album for Warp, World of Work is a beguiling mix of the folk songs of Connelly’s youth in Fife, a formative love of Enya and the avant garde sensibility she honed at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, where she studied alongside the breakout stars Erika de Casier, ML Buch and Astrid Sonne. Connelly’s voice is a clarion force; her blend of the ancient and the avant garde might recall Kate Bush circa The Sensual World, or Perfume Genius’s uncanny balladry.
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