Artist
Label
Masha Qrella
Keys
Morr Music
/
2016
Includes Instant Download
CD
9.99
morr 145-cd
LP
15.99
morr 145-lp
Incl. printed inner sleeve
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Tracklist
1Ticket To My Heart 4:31
2Pale Days 4:51
3Keys 3:58
4Simple Song 4:10
5Girl 5:21
6Rescue Pills 2:36
7White Horses 3:12
8Bogota 3:29
9DJ 5:03
10Sicily 3:03
11Why 3:08

Her new album »Keys« shows Berlin-based musician Masha Qrella elegantly fusing disco-pop and songwriting. Written and produced by Qrella in her studio within one year, the album’s eleven songs feature well-known elements of fragility, perfection and understatement, while walking a fine line between laconic coolness and passionate uptempo melancholia.

There is a new straightforwardness in how Qrella sings about break-ups, new beginnings, rescue pills and keys: »Please don’t give me your keys / cause I don’t wanna have to give them back again,« goes the refrain of the title track, whose deliberately sparse instrumentation is unexpectedly interrupted by the noise of traffic and construction sites. It’s one of those little irritating and surprising twists that have always been crucial to Qrella's music.

While her earlier solo records relied on more electronic elements, stumbling beats and sonic textures, Masha Qrella now puts emphasis on her voice and songwriting. Finally, every sort of shyness seems to have vanished.

»Every night another day, every day another night, every street leads to a new place than the one I used to find.« This is the opening line of the album, and you get the feeling that Masha Qrella is breaking new personal ground on this record, which marks her fourth full length for Morr Music. Every single song on »Keys« shows an immediate and open-hearted quality that Qrella did not quite reveal before.

With this record, Masha Qrella creates a very distinct version of pop music, subtly reminding you of her love for Elliott Smith, Neil Young, Air or Metronomy, but always staying true to herself. Join her on this emotional dance floor.