Braids
Deep In The Iris
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Deep in the Iris is Braids' third studio album. The stunning album artwork for Deep In The Iris is designed by longtime collaborator Marc Rimmer. The LP includes a lavish 12-page colour booklet featuring photos from the year that the band spent working on the album in scenic locales.
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- Letting Go
- Taste
- Blondie
- Happy When
- Miniskirt
- Getting Tired
- Sore Eyes
- Bunny Rose
- Warm Like Summer
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To record their third album, Deep In The Iris, Braids decamped to a series of retreats in the mountains of Arizona, Vermont, and upstate New York. Surrounded by nature in all its warm vitality, the longtime bandmates strove to shed the fabric of their day to day relationships, being bare and vulnerable before one another. What resulted is Deep In The Iris, their strongest record to date – powerful, yet fragile; immaculately sculpted, but deeply human.
Liner Notes
Raphaelle Standell-Preston – guitar, piano, lead vocals
Austin Tufts – drums, vocals
Taylor Smith – bass, guitar, piano, vocals
Damian Taylor – mixing
Chris Allgood – assistant
Emily Lazar – mastering
Marc Rimmer – design -
excellent
ROLLING STONE
one of the finest records of the year so far
DROWNED IN SOUND
melodic, genre-bending, atmospheric music that could soundtrack a train ride or a temper tantrum
STEREOGUM
shiver-inducing
NOW
rich with startling little images
PITCHFORK
achingly vulnerable and tentatively joyful
EXCLAIM!
a brave new chapter
NOISEY
downright magnetic
NPR
an astonishingly beautiful record
CALGARY HERALD
powerful
SILENT SHOUT
a punch to the gut, wrapped in rhythmic, electronic warmth
CBC MUSIC
a fine ear for getting to the nub of a contrary and unlikely hook
IRISH TIMES
one of the most uniquely artistic forces in music today
PASTE
will remain in your thoughts long after the speakers go silent
BEATROUTE