The Arts Desk Compares the innocence mission To Claude Monet’s Paintings

Posted on Jan 15, 2025
The Arts Desk Compares the innocence mission To Claude Monet’s Paintings

According to The Arts Desk, new innocence mission LP  “Midwinter Swimmers is the musical analogue of Claude Monet’s Nymphéas (Water Lilies) series of paintings, where the familiar is depicted in a way which brings new meaning. Imagery where detail which might be missed brings a fresh understanding of a recognisable setting, and where connections are made between the everyday and the imagined. Or, as Karen Peris puts it, there is a ‘transportive quality of scenes we might come upon in the natural world, or even in everyday objects.’

The site continues, “Where Midwinter Swimmers differs from… previous Innocence Mission albums is in its more assured rapport between the solidity of the songs themselves and delicacy with which they are delivered. So remarkable a balance is rarely struck.” Read more here, and get the album – which hit #50 on the NACC Top 200 yesterday – on your airwaves now.

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