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Fazerdaze's angsty new EP marks return to self
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Gritty return: Fazerdaze, aka Amelia Murray, poses with a banana in an undated photograph credited to Joey Clough. Five years since 2017’s ‘Morningside’, the New Zealand singer-songwriter is set to release a new extended play (EP) ‘Break!’ a couple of months before she turns 30. (Courtesy of Joey Clough/Amelia Murray) (Courtesy of Joey Clough/Amelia Murray/Courtesy of Joey Clough/Amelia Murray)
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he New Zealand singer-songwriter talks about her upcoming EP Break! and its grittier tone as marking her return to who she is after shedding a lot of baggage, especially pleasing ‘everybody else’.
“A low-key loser, a stranger to herself,” sings Amelia Murray, better known by her stage name Fazerdaze on New Zealand’s alternative scene, in the opening track of her extended play (EP), Break!, due for release on Oct. 14.
Murray, who apparently hasn’t lost her edge for writing self-deprecating lyrics, released “Come Apart”, her first single off of the upcoming EP, on July 20, five years after her debut studio album, Morningside.
Unlike that tip-toeing-over-the-meadows-in-Technicolor 2017 studio album, Break! has a grittier feel, on which Murray has opted for distorted and overdriven tracks with noises intentionally left in the mix, instead of vocal tracks drenched in reverbs and jangly guitars.
Breaking through a slump
“It was pretty tough, not being able to finish any songs for that time,” said Murray, speaking to The Jakarta Post on Sept. 30, referring to the five-year gap between the two albums.
“But I think I was speaking to other areas in my life that were blocked and not flowing. It was almost symbolic of how unhappy I was,” she mused.
