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Berlin artist Jennifer Touch returns with her second album,‘Midnight Proposals’, via FatCat Records.
Touch was reading ‘Grapes of Wrath’ by John Steinbeck whenshe started to work on ‘Midnight Proposals’. “The whole settlersmovement touched me, and I really felt like a cowboy whilstwriting and recording these songs,” she explains. It remindedher of her great-grandparents’ story, and the house they built inthe 30s that was her sanctuary as a child. “As cosy as it was, Ialways yearned for somewhere else, to find myself and my ownplace to settle.”
Full of hope and mystery, ‘Midnight Proposals’ is a selection ofsongs that both celebrate and question the romance of thisillusion, documenting a very human desire to search for ourpeople and our safe place.
For a reinvigorated Touch, it marks the next stop of a journeyboth artistically and sonically. “These are my dark proposals tothe world,” she proclaims. “So come and join me around thefire!”
Unlike biographical debut album ‘Behind the Wall’, which tookyears to pen, ‘Midnight Proposals’ was written in an explosion ofenergy and creativity and completed in just four months. Touchspent a few weeks prior sorting her set-up from her Berlin studioand gathering the tools she needed to complete the record. “Ididn’t know what was going to happen, I just said to theuniverse: hey, I’m here and I’m your vessel. It was a like a tripor something and I really don’t remember the process, but I loveevery song on it.”
Tracklist
Summerchild
Rumor
A Day
Prayer
Sacred Type
Gudrun
Twisted
Soft & Dark
Shot Shot
Already There
Art
Sold Out
Strings