“the song ‘All the World 4 Him’ is kind of an amalgamation of that event and my experiences of young but very real love. It's the idea of a delicate balance - love and the loss of it - that permeates across the entire record even outside of the lyrics. "Don't stop humming that song", they sing together on For Avery, After a Party - a beautiful refrain that opens a window in a delicate and intimate moment, the lyric sounding both a request and challenge at once. The pair share vocal duties across the LP - whether it's Chris' gentle refrain in the single Museum, or Celia's heartfelt correspondence in Love Like That but when they come together it's a climax to a crescendo like no other. We have really similar taste in music and we definitely both get it when a song is our definition of ‘good’, but I think defining that would be impossible.” We love the song ‘Me and Magdalena’ by The Monkees, if we wrote a song a fraction as good we’d finally be satisfied - it was actually written by Ben Gibbard. We both grew up listening to sad singer-songwriters like Leonard Cohen and Elliot Smith. “Musical influences are hard to define - there’s just so much, you know? We both still listen to a lot of American indie circa ’07, so that would always be an influence, and I guess we are always trying to hark back to that. On their direction, Celia goes onto say – The disquiet and mood found itself a home among the gentle layering of tambourine, glockenspiel and banjo - an arrangement you'd find on a folk record more than anything else. The conclusion of The Blue Period, and the distancing from the “emo” card they were often ascribed to, caused a change in sound and direction. What morphed Radiant Heart were the stages before, and during a relocation to London. With a move closer to Nottingham, home to DIY-space JT Soar, Chris and Celia went on to form their former band The Blue Period, releasing multiple records on long-standing label strictly no capital letters including a split with the understated emo-trio Human Hands (final track ‘Morning Sun’ is a cover of theirs). The pair have been making music ever since. Out on 1st December 2020, the ten songs on Brocken Spectre are the work of songwriters Chris Moore and Celia MacDougall (ex-The Blue Period), crafting music that is their most introspective, mesmerising, and glockenspiel-heavy yet.Ĭhris and Celia met at school in the midlands, and played the same folk open mic nights, “I remember once someone asked who my influences were and I said Chris and Bright Eyes, I thought he was really good“, Celia recollects. There’s a certain sense of closure to the line “tell them it’s the end,” the paradoxical first words on the new record by London folk-duo Radiant Heart.
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