
Niecy Blues announces her debut album, Exit Simulation
South Carolina singer and producer Niecy Blues announces her forthcoming debut album, Exit Simulation.
Niecy Blues describes her songwriting process like an undertow: “I feel a strange pull, and let it carry me, following swirling leaves... whole days roll by, forgetting about the body.”
Their full-length debut, Exit Simulation, captures this 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 characterises 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 is inspired by her 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.”
Tracklist:
- 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' forthcoming debut album, Exit Simulation, is set for release on 10 November, and is available to pre-order.
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