Private Life

One of the year's most daring and true pop records, private LIFE comes as the result of Virginia Wing living through, and with, huge personal emotional and mental traumas. It is a document of how the very process of music creation in a group can be of huge therapeutic benefit to people. The three members of Virginia Wing have explored the depths of their creative and artistic inspirations within performance, production and composition, and have made a candid and brash pop record that speaks clearly about hope, desperation, impulse, addiction, urge and shame. More tumultuous than it's predecessor, private LIFE knocks hard. The evolution of Virginia Wing's sound continues to build on the broad creative flow of the last album whilst being another audacious contribution to contemporary pop. The drums are huge and playfully unquantized. Edits are both assured and heavy handed, the instrumentation lightly mediates the two and findsSide AA1 I'm Holding Out For SomethingA2 Moon Turn TidesA3 Soft FruitA4 Michael Returns To The GardenA5 99 NorthA6 Return To ViewSide BB1 St. Francis FountainB2 Private LifeB3 Half MourningB4 Lucky CoinB5 OBW SaintsB6 I Know About These Things