Videorama, by Flowers of America ( FOA )

Videorama

by Flowers of America ( FOA )

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truemongrel When you hear a real artist, completely on their own path, you know it. Renee LoBue is that rare flower. Listen repeatedly, pollinate excitedly.

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1.	Who Knew 04:40	buy track
2.	Lifetime 02:10	buy track
3.	In Another Room 02:19	buy track
4.	Skip With Me 03:01	buy track
5.	Creepy Creepin' the Dark Hallway 02:59	buy track
6.	Breathing Together 03:05	buy track
7.	Where We Should Go 03:01	buy track
8.	Are They Happy 03:35	buy track
9.	IS Surface 04:29	buy track
10.	Please Be Nice To Me 03:17	buy track
11.	Weeping 02:54	buy track
12.	Turtles in the Ocean 03:17	buy track
13.	Raindrops 03:09	buy track
14.	When I'm With You 02:57	buy track
15.	Flowers of America 02:41	buy track
16.	People on the Street 02:29	buy track
17.	Where Eagles Dare 03:09	buy track

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'Videorama' is the debut release from Flowers of America (FOA), an exciting new solo project from Elk City vocalist Renée LoBue. As she wrote songs for the follow-up to Elk City's critically acclaimed 2018 Bar/None release 'Everybody’s Insecure', LoBue realized she was creating something more personal, more introspective. She experienced a musical shift after a deep immersion in the mediums of analog collage + lo-fi video art. “This sounds like its own thing,” she recalls. LoBue recruited Elk City bandmate Ray Ketchem to assist with the project at his Magic Door Recording in Montclair, NJ. (As a noted producer, engineer, and mixer, Ketchem has worked with acts such as Guided by Voices, Alex Chilton, and Luna.) LoBue sang and played a Roland electronic piano; then Ketchem went to work. “I took Renée’s beautifully simple piano bits and manipulated them over and over,” he explains, “expanding, enhancing, fleshing it out, seeing what can be done with the technology.” The results mesh LoBue’s gorgeous vocals and vivid lyrics with a wild range of soundscapes: Ominous and ethereal, rocking and gentle, dark and uplifting, strange and wonderful. Immerse yourself in 'Videorama'.
- Jack Silbert

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released March 6, 2020

Songs by Renée LoBue
© 2020 sound is crazy music (BMI)

Produced by Ray Ketchem

Renée LoBue / vocals, piano
Ray Ketchem / instrumentation, synthesizers, sequencing, drum programming, string arrangements
Chris Robertson / guitars on 5, 7, 9, 10, 15, 17

Recorded | Mixed | Mastered by Ray Ketchem at Magic Door

Photography by Jon Reino
Design by Ray Ketchem

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Flowers of America ( FOA ) Montclair, New Jersey

Renée LoBue is best known as the lead singer/songwriter of Montclair, New Jersey's art-pop band, Elk City. An avid video and visual artist, she coined the term EmoLectro to describe the emotionally electronic approach that is Flowers of America.

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