28 July 2021 - 0 Comments

Recent Flying Nun addition, Womb, have today released an incredible beautiful video for their song, Dust to Dust which was released in December of last year.

"This video for 'Dust to Dust' has been a long time in the making, with lots of ups and downs in between its initial dreaming and its release. In the end, we wanted to take our dear friend and trusted collaborator Martin Sagadin to some of our favourite and most special places in Pōneke: the landscape of Pariwhero/Red Rocks; the green lights along the harbour at night; the inner city carpark that looks out over Wellington. 'Dust to Dust' is a song about cycles and transitions; about how closing one door opens another <3 " - Womb

Womb is the project of siblings Charlotte Forrester (vocals & guitar; they/them), Haz Forrester (synth; he/him), and Georgette Brown (drums; she/they). Moving between spaces from shoegaze to dream pop, Womb's ethereal, genre-transcending sound is a vortex of divergent influences enchanted by a supernatural sibling synergy — felt in the screams of melancholia, swells of tenderly caressed guitar, delay-drenched synthscapes, and off-kilter percussion.

For those in New Zealand lucky enough to both get a ticket to our Flying Nun 40th celebration at the Auckland Town Hall, and manage to squeeze into the Kaleidoscope Room on the nigh to catch Womb in the flesh would have bared witness to the incredible live performance of the band. The audience was treated to not only Dust to Dust, but also to live renditions the recently released Holding a Flame EP.

Holding a Flame is a collection of songs written by the Poneke-based trio over the last couple of years. Originally anticipated to be a part of an album, the songs felt complete when placed together, as something of their own. “We recorded them on and off, while collectively listening to a whole lot of Cocteau Twins (as always), Blood Orange, and The Cure. As with most of our songs, these were written as a form of transmutation; turning discordant feelings into a unified sound as a means of getting through/past various states of being.”

Holding a Flame was recorded and produced by both the band and Bevan Smith, with Smith also taking on the mixing and mastering duties. The beautiful artwork and design is courtesy of the band’s synth whiz Haz Forrester.

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