Label: Boiled
RIYL: Low, Youth Lagoon, Cate Le Bon, The Antlers, Whitney
FCC: 2, 6
Check Out: 1, 3, 4, 7
From Promoter: On New Virginity, Nat Harvie longs for love – but “not reaching so much for the lover or the friend, as through my self,” says Harvie . Each of the album’s eight songs is a story, dreaming of an imagined future as the last person alive on Earth, to a mirror version of childhood, the possibilities of gender in a ruined Eden, and the inevitable loss that comes from loving. New Virginity is a substantial departure for the young/veteran Harvie’s music: the continual evolution of a vital voice, armed with the sonic assuredness to amply express the wonderment, and trepidation, of finding one’s way in the world – making mistakes, uncovering your character, grappling with ambition, desire, and neurosis – all happening together at once.
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