Tracey Thorn Bringing Songs From The Falling

Tracey Thorn To Release

Songs From The Falling out April 27th on Strange Feeling Records

Stereogum Premieres New Song

“Let Me In”

17-Minute Soundtrack EP of Songs and Sketches

Written for and Featured in Carol Morley’s

New Feature Film “The Falling”

On April 27th, Tracey Thorn will release Songs From The Falling, a new EP comprised of eight songs and sketches that were written for Carol Morley’s forthcoming debut feature film “The Falling.”

Following The Guardian’s premiere of “Follow Me Down,” Stereogum has premiered “Let Me In,” the second song to be released from the EP.

Listen to “Let Me In” here: https://soundcloud.com/traceythorn/let-me-in

NME’s Nick Levine said, “Whether she’s singing longingly over stark guitar riffs on ‘It Was Always Me’ or adding folky backing vocals and woodblock percussion to ‘All The Seasons,’ Thorn’s melancholy music is completely captivating.

Written after consultation with Morley to fit the film’s mood and themes Thorn’s music was inspired by one the central scenes in which several girls form the ‘Alternative School Orchestra’ and jam listlessly on instruments left lying around in the music room.

“Carol sent me a cardboard box full of the instruments they used – the typical things you’d expect, wood-block, tambourine, triangle, recorder – and I decided to use the scene as a springboard for my songs,” says Tracey.

Recorded in the north London home studio she shares with her partner Ben Watt (who engineered the recordings), Thorn added guitar and piano, wrote the songs and then – playing everything herself – allowed herself one take only on each of the instruments. “I wanted to leave in all timing discrepancies to try and capture the loose freeform feel of an untutored school performance,” she adds. The final mixes were done by Bruno Ellingham.

Part folk, part minimal garage band, the music’s gauzy simplicity harks back to Tracey’s cult debut album ‘A Distant Shore’ (1982).

“The Falling” movie is out in theaters from April 24 in the UK. A US release of the film is slated for later this year.

Pre-order Songs From The Falling here: http://geni.us/2WK2

Tracklist:

1) Follow Me Down

2) It Was Always Me

3) Are You There?

4) They Only Do Harm

5) Little Things

6) All The Seasons

7) Hospital

8) Let Me In