PHANTOM FOREST

Vinyl LP pressing. On Phantom Forest Lydia Ainsworth introduces a lush, complex dream world that she created and inhabits largely on her own. Its a beautiful, vast collection of art pop with hooks about the search for personal connections in the midst of apocalypse and technology. Its a journey that holds up to close listening (and lyric reading) and to dance floors, but can also exist on a purely emotional plane. In all cases, it asks that you listen, and take some kind of action. Lydia notes that although the self-produced album is considered pop, she approached it as an orchestrator. quot;Even if Im dealing purely with synths,quot; she says, quot;The songs are like a score, each one an evolving journey. I love to use strings so Ive included my own arrangements on Tell Me I Exist and Can You Find Her Place. I recorded live musicians on drums, bass, and guitar on Edge of the Throne, The Time, and Floating Dream, and wove those live elements into my programmed elements.quot; She wrote and performed everything aside from a re-imagined cover of Pink Floyds quot;Green is the Colorquot;; two other tracks are co-written with Survives Kyle Dixon (Stranger Things OST), to which Ainsworth wrote melodies and added lyrics to his instrumentals.