Audio capture, production, electrickery, mixing by Keith Wallace
Mastered by Aaron Hurley
Cover photo by Cecilia Danell
1. "Land and Sea"
Keith Wallace - Beat Generation, Bass guitar, Yamaha PSS 170 on end section, Electronics, Toy Theremin, Sampling.
Cecilia Danell - Acoustic guitar, Vocals, Lyrics.
A Radiance Enemy - Groovebox keyboard on middle section.
2. "E.V.P."
Keith Wallace - Beat Generation, Bass guitar, Sampling.
Brian Kelly - Electric guitar.
Kate Glavey/Burrows - Ghost Choir.
3. "How To Sleep Better"
Keith Wallace - Beat Generation, Bass guitar, Sampling.
Aaron Coyne - Rhythm electric guitar, Farfisa VIP233 Combo Organ.
Gary Morrison - Loud electric guitar.
Scott McLaughlin - String Section.
Thanks: All who played and sang, Elaine Cosgrove for lending me her bass when I broke mine, Aaron Hurley for the mastering, Cecilia Danell for her evocative photography, Rusted Rail for releasing this, and you dear listener...
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A Rusted Rail Release
Loner Deluxe "The Coast is Clear" E.P. Reviews
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"An atmospheric, often haunting mix of folk guitar, indie-rock, electronica, vocals, and samples from film, TV, and other sources characterise The Coast is Clear, the new three-track 'Digital Cassingle' from underground Galway musician Loner Deluxe...A diverse, intriguing, collection, with an unashamedly left-field approach to the creation of music...Opening track 'Land And Sea' mixes Aphex Twin influenced electronic beats with gently picked acoustic guitar, creating a melancholy mood, with vocals by the multi-talented Swedish artist and songwriter Cecilia Danell giving the piece extra weight...Loner Deluxe (aka Keith Wallace ) has never been shy to proclaim his love of Krautrock." - Galway Advertiser
"It is a return certainly pleasing to the publications of the small but acute Irish label Rusted Rail, caratterizzatasi for an approach to folk unconventional and low fidelity. After nearly two years of hiatus, is the same person responsible for labeling Keith Wallace to break its silence with an EP than ten minutes of his project Loner Deluxe, whose intent is to replicate, even if only in digital format, the logic of now becoming underground productions on tape.
The three agile tracks from "The Coast Is Clear", available for free download via Bandcamp, are enough to disrupt a large extent the established aesthetic of Loner Deluxe, hitherto guided by home electronic minimalism. The realization of the tracks with a series of different collaborators for each of them a matter their substantial heterogeneity, as well as introduce a significant innovation in the expressive palette of Wallace, that for the first time in the initial "Land And Sea" sees the presence of ' voice element.
The Cecilia Danell velvety timbre gives content to the dreamy song, covered by synthetic and rhythmic lines uttered, and the remaining two instrumental, crossed by impromptu field recordings, fold back on analog pulse liquid (the short "EVP") and vivid dynamics between guitars and percussion who know the desert texture American indie rock 90s.
Loner Deluxe thus shows that he was faithful to the aesthetics lo-fi base, of which "The Coast Is Clear" greatly amplifies the already kaleidoscopic range of expression. Welcome back!"
- Music Wont Save You (Internet translation from Italian)
Meticulously-crafted productions provide the backdrop for haunting, slowly-winding vocals on this gloriously shadowy EP. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 19, 2017
The expansive electronic songs on “Canary” reflect both a sense of unease about the world’s future and finding hope to carry on. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 15, 2023
