New album ‘private LIFE’ draws on the synth-pop of the last album
whilst being another audacious statement on contemporary pop.
Limited Dinked edition hand numbered blue & black hand marbled vinyl with Poster (400 units only),
standard LP and CD.
BBC6 Music – Album Of The Day 17th February
“Broadcast if they were raised on Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders rather than Silver Apples and United States Of America” ★★★★ Pitchfork
“Alice Merida Richards combines her calm sprechgesang with rage against millennial misogyny, offset by rich earwormy electronics” ★★★★ The Guardian
“Their most engaging album to date” ★★★★½ Loud and Quiet
“Virginia Wing’s definitive experimental style continues to be electrifyingly alluring” ★★★★ DIY Mag
“private LIFE furthers the group’s investigations into 1980s American art hybrid pop, leftfield jazz and a seriously bright sky of analogue synthesisers” The Quietus
“A release that relocates their eclectic synthpop from the bright possibilities of the landscape to a more enigmatic private space.” The Wire
“”I’m Holding Out for Something” tips its hat to early dance acts like Soul II Soul, but Virginia Wing do it in their own at-a-distance style.” Brooklyn Vegan
★★★★ Music OMH
“As warmly poppy as it is coolly elusive/allusive.” Elsewhere, by Graham Reid
“Faszinierend sperrig und kühl” ★★★★½ Musik Express
“Pop synthétique inventive et décalée” Libération x Tsugi
“private LIFE tient ses promesses. Il refuse l’immobilisme, le trop-plein de conformisme (…) un album qualitatif, porté par des sons imaginatifs” Muzzart
“L’album scorre che e’ un piacere” ★★★★ Blow Up
“Ammirevole il valore dato ai testi” Rumore
“Parecchio stimolanti” Buscadero
“Scelte musicali di grande efficacia e classe” Raro Più
“Een enorm plezier om naar te luisteren” Gonzo Circus
“De meest intrigerende en indringende release van Virginia Wing” ★★★★ Written Music
Tour dates:
22nd September – Elsewhere, Margate
23rd September – Hope & Ruin, Brighton
24th September – Moth Club, London
25th September – Muthers Studio, Birmingham
28th September – Sneaky Petes, Edinburgh
29th September – Broadcast, Glasgow
30th September – The Cluny 2, Newcastle
1st October – Headrow House, Leeds
2nd October – White Hotel, Manchester
7th October – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
8th October – Crofters Rights, Bristol
9th October – Blue Moon, Cambridge
Photo Credit: Martin Livesey
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