Louise Patricia Crane Netherworld 2LP (Clear with Blood Red Splatter Vinyl)

Louise Patricia Crane is a singer/songwriter whose work draws on a wide range of musical and artistic influences, to produce a sound that is undeniably her own. From guitar-driven '70s progressive rock, through to '80s avant-garde dream pop, Louise's work blends all of her influences to weave her own unique magic spell.

Netherworld marks a considerable step forward onwards from the territory that Louise explored on her 2020 debut Deep Blue, crafting audial landscapes that go further into both inner and outer space; hallucinatory and surrealistic yet also grittier and more direct. For all that this stemmed in part from early Genesis and The Beatles, Netherworld also sits in alignment with the luxurious but oddly intimate realm of modern classics, by the likes of Tears for Fears, Tori Amos and Joni Mitchell, with passionate intensity set in a bold, cinematic vista.

Netherworld is a work that exists on a lineage of progressive music and the visionary artists who've expanded their boundaries of exploration to form sound-worlds as big as their imagination, it's also a work of magical realism in the tradition of Pan's Labyrinth, The Company of Wolves or the work of Gabriel García Márquez and Haruki Murakami—in which the supernatural and otherworldly, lead to a shortcut to the essence of being human. In this World, Louise Patricia Crane is our Storyteller.

The new queen of psychedelic prog-pop has arrived