Lake Ruth - Hawking Radiation

Working with melodies first, Allison knew she wanted a celestial and cinematic narrative to this album, from there threading and interweaving three key strands of influence into the stratosphere. This means that the tracks generate a constellation of tales with many of the lyrics inspired by the voices and tales on the sorrowful podcast about Heaven’s Gate (the cult where the victims fatally believed they would graduate to an alien spacecraft behind the Hale-Bopp Comet). Contrary to what might be deemed overwhelming subjects are Allison’s ‘hot-knife-through-butter’ seraphic vocals, her melancholic intonation trading blushes with the guitars’ ripple of baroque pop. There is a lightness of touch in the skittering drums too, some touches more familiar to fans of 60s bossa nova. All three members of Lake Ruth have been in other groups – Allison Brice in Eighteenth Day Of May and The Silver Abduction; Hewson Chen in The New Lines and Matt Schulz in Holy Fuck. It’s an effervescent combination that waltzes and flashes like perplexing trails in the night sky.