Like all those times when I was younger and my mom was around to tell me that the prehensile tail my younger brother had was totally normal, I am now here to tell you how absolutely and completely natural it is that White Poppy, a.k.a., Vancouver’s Crystal Dorval, has a new album coming out June 23. Fittingly (given my hilarious intro), it’s called Natural Phenomena, and as with her previous self-titled LP, it’ll be out via Not Not Fun.
Like a plant, or an egg, or my brother’s tail right up until his fifth birthday when a group of masked men came to take him away, Natural Phenomena developed bit by bit over a long period of time. In the album’s case, it was a nine-month retreat to a farm on Vancouver Island, where Dorval worked slowly and painstakingly, crafting the tiniest details into 10 tracks of softly dreamlike and loping tracks. Meanwhile, my brother’s tail was rough like the skin of a crocodile, and it grew from the day he was born. It was three-feet long when they took him away. I never saw him again.
Check out opening track “Confusion” over at the Chocolate Grinder right here.
Natural Phenomena tracklist:
01. Confusion
02. Wild Mind
03. Sublimity
04. Exotic Realms
05. Midnight Sun
06. Aurora
07. Telepathic Love
08. Ebb and Flow
09. Mermaids
10. Arctic Rose
• White Poppy: http://crystaldorval.com
• Not Not Fun: http://crystaldorval.com