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Curse Of The Contemporary

“Curse of the Contemporary” is the first track from the brand new band LUMP – a collaboration between Mike Lindsay – founding member of Tunng and Throws, and a prolific, Mercury prize-winning producer – and Laura Marling – a Grammy-nominated, Brit award-winning singer-songwriter. It is a perfect introduction for their self-titled debut album out on June 1.

It’s a remarkably visual, colourful sound – a heady blend of wonked-out guitars, Moog synths and pattering drums, set against droning, coiling clouds of flutes and voices. On ‘Curse of the Contemporary’ a steady, pulsing bassline divines a road snaking off towards the horizon -– a sense of gazing out of a car window as mountains and palm trees rush by. Marling begins: “If you should be bored in California / I’m sure I’m not the first to warn you,” and as the song goes on, her words drip with ever more cynicism for the new age: “We salute the sun / Because when the day is done / We can’t believe what we’ve become / Something else to prey upon.”