Liela Moss
With the Duke Spirit, collaborators like UNKLE, and on her own, Liela Moss is a powerful and versatile singer. Her ethereal upper register and smoky lower tones work equally well with bluesy rock, electronic music, dream pop, or lush, string-laden ballads. She combined all of these on solo albums including 2020's Who the Power and 2023's Internal Working Model, both of which used moody electro-rock to express pressing concerns like climate change and the need for community.
During her teenage years, Moss was a die-hard music fan -- particularly of the riot grrrl movement -- but didn't begin singing until she was 19. While studying photography at an art college in Cheltenham, England, her flatmate Luke Ford recruited her to sing for the band that would become the Duke Spirit. The group recorded its bluesy 2004 debut album, Cuts Across the Land, with Simon Raymonde, beginning a lengthy creative partnership between Moss and the former Cocteau Twin. She embarked on another enduring collaboration by appearing on UNKLE's 2007 album, War Stories, and contributed vocals to the 2011 deluxe edition of their album Where Did the Night Fall (Another Night Out).
Following the release of their 2011 album, Bruiser, the Duke Spirit went on hiatus, and Moss used the opportunity to explore different projects. In 2012, she appeared on Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' soundtrack to the film Lawless. Moss and the band's bassist, Toby Butler, formed the electropop duo Roman Remains, which released a pair of singles in 2013 and the following year's full-length Zeal. Also in 2014, Moss performed alongside the Heritage Orchestra at a concert celebrating the work of producer/composer Giorgio Moroder at the Sydney Opera House. In 2015, she reunited with UNKLE for "Touch Me," a single that appeared on Global Underground #41: James Lavelle Presents UNKLE Sounds - Naples. The Duke Spirit re-formed in the mid-2010s, issuing a pair of introspective albums, 2016's Kin and the following year's The Sky Is Mine. In 2017, Moss also contributed to Ojalá, the debut album from Raymonde's Lost Horizons project, and appeared on UNKLE's album The Road, Pt. 1.
Moss began her solo career, which built on the somber direction of her band's later work, in the late 2010s. Recorded at her Somerset home with Butler producing, November 2018's My Name Is Safe in Your Mouth put the focus on her vocals and drew inspiration from sources ranging from Emmylou Harris to Massive Attack's Mezzanine. For August 2020's Who the Power, she worked at home with Butler once again, this time pairing vintage electronics with lyrics that tapped into folk traditions as well as 21st century political and ecological concerns. Butler and Moss raised their family while working on her third album, January 2023's Internal Working Model. Informed by Moss' interest in attachment theory and the need to reach out in the wake of the COVID-19 global pandemic, the album's pensive electro-rock songs included contributions from Gary Numan, Jehnny Beth, and Dhani Harrison
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Diskografie
19 Album, -en • Geordnet nach Bestseller
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Internal Working Model
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Bella Union am 13.01.2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Who The Power
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Bella Union am 07.08.2020
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Sunrise (Always Comes Around)
Electronic - Erschienen bei Songs For The Def am 07.07.2017
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
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A Little Bit of Rain
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Bella Union am 29.03.2019
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ache In The Middle
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Bella Union am 22.11.2022
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
My Name Is Safe in Your Mouth
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Bella Union am 09.11.2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Vanishing Shadows
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Bella Union am 11.10.2022
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Atoms At Me (UNKLE Reconstruction)
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Bella Union am 26.05.2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Who The Power (Reformed)
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Bella Union am 07.08.2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Come and Find Me
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Bella Union am 05.01.2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Atoms At Me
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Bella Union am 26.05.2020
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Memories and Faces
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Bella Union am 01.10.2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Watching The Wolf
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Bella Union am 30.06.2020
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
The Individual (Johnny Hostile Remix)
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Bella Union am 16.03.2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Wild As Fire
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Bella Union am 06.08.2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Turn Your Back Around
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Bella Union am 27.07.2020
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
White Feather (Emika Remix)
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Bella Union am 17.02.2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Wild As Fire Remixed
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Bella Union am 28.09.2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo