{"product_id":"hollie-kenniff-the-quiet-drift","title":"Hollie Kenniff - The Quiet Drift","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHollie makes up one half of the duo Mint Julep also on Western Vinyl, and the album features performances from Keith Kenniff \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(aka Goldmund). “Her voice is like sunlight, exposing the world and expunging it from total darkness. Fluid Radio \/\/ “This is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esome of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enicest ambient composition we’ve heard in a while...” Bleep. \/\/ “a kind of sacred music that’s unpretentious and real.” Ambient Music Guide. \/\/ “...with these pieces there is a very peaceful and nurturing prescence felt.” Drifting Almost Falling. \/\/ “This album isn’t just interesting, it’s beautiful.” [sic] Magazine \/\/ Director David Lynch once said “I long for a kind \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof quiet where I can just drift and dream. I \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ealways say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you’re quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you’re going t\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eo catch a fish \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eeventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they’re going to hit you.” Inspired by this quote in both name and spirit, Hollie Kenniff’s The Quiet Drift is an ambient gallery of cloudlike synths, seraphic strings, echoing guitars, and other cele\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003estial textures \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eguided to cohesion by Hollie’s own wordless singin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eg. Though the album certainly creates (and originates from) the kind of space where \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLynch’s proverbial “fish” can be caught, The Quiet Drift is a fitting title for Hollie’s own history, both recent and distant\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. During the course \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof the album’s creation, Ho\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ellie and her family moved cross-country from an island in Washington state, to an island in Maine before \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eultimately relocating to Canada. “As a child I visited Ontario year\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eround,” she explains in her own words. She continues “More than any \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eother landscape, I think the lake, rivers, and woods there left the most enduring impression on me. The landscape and pace of life of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethese places will always stay with me.” But the reverberant spaces Hollie crafts need no physical headquarters. Instead of c\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eonjuring views of nature at the ground level, her sound more readily evokes a top-down perspective, with the distinct features of the land shrinking underfoot as the listener becomes untethered from geography altogether. The Quiet Drift belongs more to the liminal spaces between life and afterlife, memory and fantasy, landscape and dreamscape, than any mappable locale. Describing her formative years, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHollie says “As a dual US\/Canadian citizen who spent my childhood in a rural town one that I haven’t returned to in many \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eyears I have a sense of not entirely belonging anywhere. When I was a teenager my close friends were male musicians, so I was also an outsider to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe degree that they were wild and anarchic in a way that I wasn’t. I was a quiet book reader and avid music \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elistener who enjoyed being \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003earound a creative group. I was also a radio DJ for alternative and punk music throughout high school.” In this light, The Qui\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eet Drift attests that creativity is placeless, and calls into question the stereotype of artists as scene-centric city dwellers. Having come of age in the absence of metropolitan sensory overload, Hollie learned to spot the muse in nature, and within herself, instead of the echo chamber of a frenzied peer group. On The Quiet Drift Hollie Kenniff wholly escapes from such pop-culture feedback loops into transcendent, shimmering realms, and she brings the listener along with her. In this age in which we have all been called to reevaluate our relationship to indoor spaces, and seek refuge in the great outdoors, The Quiet Drift provides an apt soundtrack for such rebalancing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 1\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAvailable on limited vinyl LP on Snow White vinyl. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"South Records Ltd","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":64322799370617,"sku":null,"price":16.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0973\/1463\/6153\/files\/HollieKenniff-TheQuietDrift_8dbcb9a9-e988-4935-9bda-94c6a8a1dd31.jpg?v=1787903293","url":"https:\/\/vinyl-relic.com\/products\/hollie-kenniff-the-quiet-drift","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}