Thursday 1st March 2012

NEW MUSIC: MARIA MINERVA – “GLORIA”

Maria Minerva wont be a new name to those who slavishly consult blogs for their new music fix and I suspect this song has been online for a few weeks at least already. But that’s no reason not to draw attention to its coquettish allure.

And prescience is irrelevant when you’re discussing an artist so clearly tied to constructions of memory. Minerva’s music has the personalised feel of someone cannibalising her recent past, a life perpetually folding into sound. And typically, “Gloria” furthers that perception. Coming on like the longing for a nearly-sexual encounter, it’s the breathless holding on to the thought of a coulda-woulda-shoulda locked somewhere in a past that can’t quite be reached. Perhaps the most universal desire of all…

And so, lying alone at night, with the pornography of your past to retreat into, who needs the new? Let Minerva lead you down that road…

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Maria Minerva – “Gloria”

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