Franke Ene -No Longer -Empty Cellar CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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1.1 No Longer

1.2 I've Studied You

1.3 Drown

1.4 Flesh in a Womb

1.5 Housing Alcove

1.6 Ides Underneath

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No Longer is an album by Franke Ene, released in 2020. The album is a pop CD. -

"No Longer is a suite of six absorbing, patient reveries on conflicted concupiscence and encroaching darkness by Berkeley songwriter Frank Ene, who composed the material in a period of solitude following the demise of his noise-pop group Pure Bliss. Ene abstained from socializing to write the songs, venturing outside mostly to work in the basement of a frame-shop or observe students on the nearby UC Berkeley campus, vintage self-help paperbacks stuffed in his pockets. When it came time to record, he opted to play nearly every instrument himself. 'Some songs are affirmations,' he said. 'The saddest ones I can't remember writing, as if someone entered my mind and body in a really brutal way.' "Suffused with an atmosphere of slow-simmering tension, No Longer traffics in understated grooves reminiscent of latter-era Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, with Ene's rich voice somehow sounding at once wispy and full-bodied. 'Flesh In The Womb,' one of the songs to feature songwriter and Fresh & Onlys guitarist Wymond Miles, channels the lasciviousness of Serge Gainsbourg as well as the beguiling sparseness of Dean Blunt. The lyrics to 'Housing Alcove,' a crushing meditation on childhood trauma, reveal competing, interconnected feelings of vulnerability and ambition (a duality captured by the evocative album art). A dynamic, repeat listen, No Longer stands among the most musically arresting and emotionally contoured Bay Area solo debuts in recent memory." -Sam Lefebvre

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EMP046CD

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