DUNCAN LLOYD (OF MAXIMO PARK) SHARES “PAINTERS” VIDEO ‘I O U O M E’ LP OUT NOW
Photo Cred: Steve Gullick
WATCH & SHARE: Duncan Lloyd – “Painters” Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1cXHdAOiig“hushed and intimate while being loud and broadly expressive, summoning comparisons to Alex Chilton’s work on Big Star’s Third or Teenage Fanclub at its best” – PopMatters
Duncan Lloyd (of Maximo Park) shares new video “Painters” via PopMatters. Lloyd explains that the track “looks back at a time when we felt less mortal, reflecting that what you dream of doesn’t always turn out as planned.”
The track is from his recently released solo album ‘I O U O M E’, which is out now.
Duncan Lloyd is probably best known as the guitarist and musical driving force behind Mercury Music Prize nominated Newcastle (UK) band, Maximo Park, but Lloyd’s frenetic outpouring has also seen him busy with various projects including Decade In Exile, Nano Kino, experimentalists Res Band, and solo work under his own name.
It is his solo work which now calls for our attention, with the release of new album, ‘I O U O M E’.
On an album about surviving change, detailing the effort to escape self-destructiveness, division and the inevitable breakdown of certain relationships, it’s starkly personal, each insightful tale woven with defiantly buoyant melodies.
There is a quality that seeps through the foundations of “I O U O M E”; Lloyd’s voice has a tactile warmth, weaving around deftly self-produced music, as if through his own nocturnal metropolis.
The melodies keep you afloat but between the layers there’s an emotional intimacy borne of experienced song-writing, both nimble and volatile. Talking about the record, Lloyd comments;
“These songs come from a more personal perspective and it’s fair to say there is a lot of longing in them.
They were mostly written in motion, travelling on long journeys, often late at night when ideas tend to mutate & evolve in a way which is less black & white, where finer subtleties appear.”
Ultimately “I O U O M E” is an absorbing album, rich with melody, melancholy and wit. With the addition of Tom English (Maximo Park) on drums, and additional vocals from Eternal Summers’ Nicole Yun, the album powers into sonorous focus, never lapsing, it is a full-blown journey that is saying something worth hearing and for Lloyd, the end result this time, is his alone.
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