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Ninetails
12+ albums
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Ninetails – Quiet Confidence (EP) March 10th, 2014 Liverpool three-piece Ninetails are set to release the colourful and cathartic Quiet Confidence this March. A decisive shift from the sound of 2012’s critic-favourite Slept And Did Not Sleep, the EP is Ninetails’ first release since the outgoing of former singer and guitarist Ed Black. Ninetails came to prominence last year following plays on Radio 1, praise from online and national media, including The Quietus, Drowned In Sound and being championed in The Independent’s Sounds of 2013. With critical acclaim now firmly established, Quiet Confidence builds on this momentum, as the band experiments with a wealth of ideas and sounds to create something drenched in beauty and full of expansive, iridescent depth. This tactile beauty was finalized through the Music Producers Guild’s Mastering Engineer of the Year Matt Colton (Raime, James Blake) and produced and engineered by Chris Pawlusek. Quiet Confidence is a strikingly dense and ornate EP, with the music expelling great weights of euphoric release in its wending, intricate arrangements. The songs’ sinuous structures are tied together by various melodic and lyrical motifs and mantras; the songs’ narrator uses them to “frequently remind themselves of their devotional cause and self-soothe in the face of opposition and doubt. (Sanctus Lux Aeterna Aria, Covered in a shell of light I push forth golden Aria, Aria.)” Jordan Balaber explains, “Aesthetically I was inspired by really
