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Angeline Morrison recently released her new album OPHELIA, described by Thomas Blake in his KLOF Mag album review as a perfect, otherworldly landscape of hauntological folk music: “Morrison has embraced the aural language of hauntology on this album, perhaps more than ever before: imagine if Broadcast’s Trish Keenan had been kidnapped at birth by the Copper family and raised on a diet of Angela Carter’s fairy tales…” (read it here).
Taken from the album, Angeline has shared a music video for He Comes in the Night – “a ghost story that is also a love story. The imagined beloved vanishes with each new day, leaving only motes of dust and memories…”
The video was directed by Angeline, and Videography & Editing was by Nick Duffy (they both perform together as We Are Muffy).
In his album review, Blake says: He Comes in the Night is the story of a literal haunting, but given a sense of ambiguity by Morrison’s impressive lyrics. She has a gift for expanding tiny details until they represent whole strange worlds, and here, motes of dust become the only things that can be shared by the ghost and his former lover. The fixation on dust is reflected in the dry sound of Morrison’s keyboard: it’s a song with the air sucked out of it, leaving only the smallest, most exquisite details.
He Comes in the Night is also our Song of the Day.
OPHELIA is out now.
Order via Bandcamp: https://angelinemorrisonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ophelia-album
You can also hear Angeline in our latest Folk Show:
