Maria Somerville - LusterBy the time Irish musician Maria Somerville started writing Luster, her landmark label debut for 4AD, she had lived away from her native Connemara for quite some time. Having grown up amongst the wild, mountainous terrain of Galways rural west coast, she later relocated to Dublin, where she patiently developed an atmospheric dream pop signature inspired by the landscape of her youth a spellbinding sound world of gusting ambient electronics, ethereal

The Carpenters

like the track titled Don't Cry

” The Quietus

Beans and Greens reels forgotten and unreleased

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats

” explains the band’s US-based bassist and producer

' Compiled and sequenced by Seattle's DJ Supreme La Rock

it debuted at number 10 in the UK albums chart and features the singles “It Starts And Ends with You”

Side I - The Other One

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The band began as the brainchild of Chloe and Tom

and she is given that definition by other characters