New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Mundane opens with an industrial beat with layered synths and soft vocals on first track 'My Void', also the album's first single which was realised last year. 'Stalkers' is the next song on which also happens to be the second single to introduce the album.
Unlimited beliefs form the inspiration to the songs Brown wrote for Mundane. Twelve songs that each express one of the many things we deal with in life but Brown likes to look at them from an extreme perspective.
'Beautiful Misery' is the last song on the album and starts of with a lingering melody. The essence of this hypnotising soundscape is a poem played backwards, because looking back we'll find the inspiration to move forward. Fiona Brown worked with musicians Neil Fraser (Tindersticks),
Simon Casier (Balthazar), Steven Van Gelder (Geike) and Tom Barbier (Ozark Henry).
The album was mixed by Staf Verbeeck at Stf Studio and mastered by
Frederik Dejongh at Jerboa Mastering with artwork provided by Herman Houbrechts (Beeldzorg) and Guy Kokken.
After the release of her EP Demons (Dec 5, 2016) Fiona toured
Europe as the support of
Stuart A. Staples, Tindersticks and Daan. Demons was the start of Brown's solo project intended to create something entriely by herself without being influenced by other people.
My Void (Nov. 27, 2020) was the first single to be released as a precursor to debut album Mundane (May 28, 2021). The song was playlisted on
Radio 1 (BE), BBC
Music Introducing Oxford and Sheppey FM as well as YMX
Radio London. The following single Stalkers (Mar. 19, 2021) - inspired by the movie Stalker by filmmaker Tarkovsky and a documentary on real stalkers on their way to Pripyat (Chernobyl) - establishes the new sound that Brown has been exploring with her husband and producer Staf Verbeeck and sets the tone for Mundane. The debut album reflects on society, the way it appears to the writer.
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