Aoife Nessa Frances
Land of No Junction
Release Date: Jan 17, 2020
Genre(s): Pop/Rock
Record label: Ba Da Bing Records
Music Critic Score
How the Music Critic Score works
Buy Land of No Junction from Amazon
Album Review: Land of No Junction by Aoife Nessa Frances
Great, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
A pastoral, dark-hued collection of gently psychedelic folk-based songs, Land of No Junction is the debut album from Irish singer/songwriter, Aoife Nessa Frances. Based in North Dublin, Frances cut her teeth in the mid-2010s as one-half of the shoegaze duo Princess before setting off on a more organic solo path a few years later. Beginning with an almost freeform approach, she slowly began honing a group of songs that intertwined abstract imagery, personal introspections, and subtle evocations of the natural world.
Based on rating 7/10
With her psychedelic folk debut, Dublin songwriter Aoife Nessa Frances has crafted an album that sounds like it is floating. Caught in the liminal spaces between consciousness and sleep, as well as past and present, Frances's flowing folk-rock arrangements — thick with '60s nostalgia — sound comfortably ungrounded. The spirit of her peaceful songwriting is captured on "Here in the Dark," when she pours out the line, "My heart is so alive, often dreaming of better times." The instrumentals throughout Land of No Junction are ….
'Land of No Junction'
is available now