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Lost Horizons release their new album ‘In Quiet Moments’ via Bella Union. The album features a stellar array of musical guests including John Grant, C Duncan, Marissa Nadler, Porridge Radio, Penelope Isles, Karen Peris (the innocence mission), Tim Smith (Midlake), Ren Harvieu and many more.
In 2017, Simon Raymonde and Richie Thomas had both abstained from making music for 20 years until they united as Lost Horizons and released a stunning debut album, ‘Ojalá’ - the Spanish word for ‘hopefully’ or ‘God willing.’
“These days, we need hope more than ever, for a better world.” Thomas said at the time. “And this album has given me a lot of hope. To reconnect with music.... And the hope for another Lost Horizons record!” Thomas’ hopes had a mixed response.
On the plus side, the new Lost Horizons album ‘In Quiet Moments’ is an even stronger successor to ‘Ojalá’ with another distinguished cast of guest singers and a handful of supporting instrumentalists embellishing the core duo’s gorgeously free- flowing and loose-limbed blueprint that one writer astutely labelled, “melancholy- delia.”
On the minus side, any hope for a better world, as Earth continues to freefall toward political and social meltdown. Then, to make matters worse, as Raymonde and Thomas buckled down to create the improvised bedrock that Lost Horizons is built on, the former’s mother died. At least Raymonde had a way to channel his grief. “The way improvisation works,” he says, “it’s just what’s going on with your body at the time, to let it out.”
Raymonde (bass, guitar, keyboards, production) and Thomas (drums, occasional keys and guitar) forged ahead, creating 16 instrumental tracks to send to prospective guests. When he did, Raymonde suggested a guiding theme for their lyrics: “death and rebirth. Of loved ones, of ideals, at an age when many artists that have inspired us are also dead, and the planet isn’t far behind. But I also said, ‘The most important part is to just do your own thing, and have fun.’”
Lost Horizons’ melancholy-delia also feels buoyed aloft by airy currents, informed in part by Raymonde and Thomas’ former respective bands: the legendary Cocteau Twins and Dif Juz. Their former bands were labelmates on 4AD in the mid-80s, which is how they first met.
“I think ‘In Quiet Moments’ is more in the direction of where we’re going,” Thomas concludes. “People have retreated into their lives and, in those quiet moments, reflected on the world, how we fit in and who we and trust. Maybe the next album will be about rebellion! But the road is long and winding. We just need to express ourselves in how we feel at the time.”
Tracklist
Halcyon - Lost Horizons feat. Jack Wolter
I Woke Up With An Open Heart - Lost Horizons feat. The Hempolics
Grey Tower - Lost Horizons feat. Tim Smith
Linger - Lost Horizons feat. Gemma Dunleavy
One For Regret - Lost Horizons feat. Porridge Radio
Every Beat That Passed - Lost Horizons feat. Kavi Kwai
Nobody Knows My Name - Lost Horizons feat. Cameron Neal
Cordelia - Lost Horizons feat. John Grant
In Quiet Moments - Lost Horizons feat. Ural Thomas
Circle - Lost Horizons feat. C Duncan
Unravelling In Slow Motion - Lost Horizons feat. Ren Harvieu
Blue Soul - Lost Horizons feat. Laura Groves
Flutter - Lost Horizons feat. Rosie Blair
Marie - Lost Horizons feat. Marissa Nadler
Heart Of A Hummingbird - Lost Horizons feat. Lily Wolter
This Is The Weather - Lost Horizons feat. Karen Peris
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