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- 1111
- The Nite B4
- U Care
- Violently Rooted
- Exit Simulation
- Exits
- Soma
- Messages From Above
- Lament
- Violently Rooted Reprise
- The Architect
- Analysis Paralysis
- Cascade
Niecy Blues
Exit Simulation
kranky
Their full-length debut, 'Exit Simulation', captures a sense of deep-rooted divination, cycling between simmering ballads, ghosted R&B, downtempo gospel, and looped vocal improvisations – often within the same track.
The title is taken from a science fiction novel she read during the purgatory of the pandemic, alluding to a dimensional ideation of departure – “the permission to imagine leaving.” Recorded in her current home of Charleston, she characterizes the album’s mood in terms both reflective and raw: an exploration of things suppressed, foundations beginning to crack, “talking myself off a ledge.” The music of Niecy Blues transposes reverie and reckoning into emotive devotionals of keys, guitar, bass, synth, and bewitched voice, steeped in sacred atmospheres gleaned from a youth spent in a religious Oklahoma household: “My first experience with ambient music was church – slow songs of worship, with delay on the guitar... even if you don’t believe, you feel something."