Louise Patricia Crane Releases Uplifting, Opulent and Richly Cinematic Single: Midnight View

Showcasing her stylistically expansive vision on the forthcoming Netherworld album, Midnight View sees Louise Patricia Crane evoke a film noir, smoky jazz club “torch singer” atmosphere, with this uplifting, opulent and richly cinematic conclusion to the record. Her witching hour musings detailed within sensuous vocal delivery, Crane utilises the song’s timing to create a clever interplay — at once lyrically tying Netherworld‘s storytelling concept together — the perfect thematic bookend to where her album began; in the ‘world below’, with her lamenting Irish folksong Dance With The Devil.

Greatly demonstrating the progression and upwards trajectory of Crane’s sophisticated songwriting and abilities as a producer, in perhaps the most direct way so far, Midnight View marries the  essence of Joni Mitchell’s glossy Chalkmark In A Rainstorm era and her own nod to Tears For Fears classic ‘The Working Hour’ – Midnight View was specifically written with the same saxophonist in mind: Mel Collins, who plays stunning solos on the aforementioned tracks and is featured prominently on both.

Midnight View is culled from Netherworld, which marks a considerable step onward from the territory that Crane explored on her debut LP Deep Blue, crafting musical landscapes filled with magic and beauty, hallucinatory and intoxicating, merging sound into experience while diffusing a supernatural, exotic vibe. Points of reference call for comparison to Kate Bush, St. Vincent, Sarah McLachlan, Cocteau Twins, the works of Angela Carter, The Brothers Grimm and ethereal films like The Company of Wolves, and Pan’s Labyrinth and the use of magical realism as a cypher for real-life experience.