Brighton based artist and musician Lucy Feliz is pleased to announce that she has signed to Scottish independent label OK Pal Records for her second album, Last of The Sun.

The new album is set for release on 28 August 2020.  To celebrate the news, Feliz has revealed an official video for the albums lead single, Magic Hour.

Magic Hour will perfectly pave the way into this immersive collection of new songs.

For Feliz, the track is a mystic affair that conjures skipping school on the first warm day of summer to practice astral projection in a teenage bedroom. Aching to believe in something more magical than Catholic school and a conservative upbringing has to offer, determined to transcend the day-to-day by any means necessary she tells us:

When I was a child, the dressing up box was my favourite thing in the world. I love shape-shifting. One time at primary school I brought an orange wig and glasses to class and announced my name was Charlie. My disguise failed pretty quickly…the Milkybar Kid gold rims didn’t pass for prescriptions in the 90s. I also walked around Gatwick zoo with an empty loo roll in my lycra shorts so I could try out being a boy. My parents received some looks that day.

Magic Hour itself is a track that has an ethereal feel, the psychedelic guitars and ghostly keys coupled with some haunting vocals from Feliz, make the song feel other worldy.

The melody will float around your head and will have you lose yourself in the song, almost as if you have fallen asleep and entered a parallel universe!!

The lyrics carry a sense of a story through childlike eyes in the hope and optimism that life may bring, it goes through some darker times when Feliz sings “red flowers flash in the magic hour, blood of the bad, probably tastes sour, the voice I have, have to look after, I went to Catholic school, the way I was led found it kind of cruel, crawling in my head treated me a fool,  the biggest disaster”.

But ultimately the hope shines through as the song fades out to the repeated “happy ever after, ………..happy ever after”.

Magic Hour is a great track, it’s haunting in it’s delivery but has a real hook to it that means you want absorb the song and listen to it on repeat.

Give Magic Hour a stream now:

https://open.spotify.com/album/1jekGutBVjV5CydzRKuS2i?si=s_Kb3AauRK6EQyRqoplvTw

Or watch the official video below:

Feliz’s debut album, Ancestry, was released on Union Music in 2017. Recorded in a church founded by her Welsh ancestors, the record was a raw exploration of roots and belonging. NAfter receiving favourable press coverage from the likes of The Line of Best Fit, Folk Radio, Folk & Honey and national plays on BBC Radio Wales, she went on to open for artists such as Laura Veirs, Anna Burch and Tiny Ruins on their UK tours.

On Last of the Sun, we see Feliz shift her attention away from the realism of personal histories to a more fluid terrain. She transports the listener into dreamscapes and mythological plains, while retaining the lyrical intimacy that defined her first record.

The new album was recorded in New Zealand’s Sitting Room with award-winning producer Ben Edwards (Marlon Williams, Delaney Davidson, Julia Jacklin, Nadia Reid, Aldous Harding). Feliz could not have chosen a further away location from her Brighton music scene if she tried, but that was the intention. After three years of therapy and existential paralysis, she had hit something of a quarter life crisis. This drove her to put her life in the UK on hold and make a fresh start, away from constraints of familiarity, geography, social structures & family dynamics. In the midst of this vibrant landscape, completely different to her normal environment Feliz was able to fully absorb herself in the recording process.

Last of the Sun will be released via OK Pal records on the 28 August 2020.

Lucy Feliz can be followed on Website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Spotify:

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