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Maxine Funke - Timeless Town
Maxine Funke - Timeless Town
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Kashual Plastik - Tape
Germany, 2025
Folk / Indie
Absolutely vibrant and surprisingly optimistic (for Kashual Plastik standards) collection of heavily washed-out ballads and instrumentals by seasoned New Zealand songwriter Maxine Funke. Crafting music that is dreamy and downy to a level I rarely witnessed, Funke gently takes us through this Timeless Town, someplace recalling that of Twin Peaks but from where evil has been chased forever. A reassuring cousin of Julee Cruise or Jonine and Woo. Devastatingly joyous and peaceful.
I've been following Maxine Funke since the release of her 2021 album on A Colourful Storm but no release stroke me as much as this unexpected tape on Kashual Plastik, not only because of the aesthetic gap between the experimental german label and the soft-voiced singer, but because of the sidestep that Timeless Town represents for her music: a departure from the minimal folk formula of her latest releases - a girl, a guitar and a creaking wooden floor, to put it bluntly - to embraces ample, enveloping arrangements of synth pads, delayed pianos, and unidentified synthetic sounds. It reminds of 1980's or 1980's-leaning music that is quite far away from the current zeitgeist and that brought so much joy into my listening habits in the past decade: Beverley Glenn Coppeland's 1984 Keyboard Fantasies, OPN's early explorations of mid-1980's new age and cable television aesthetics as well as A.R.T. Wilson's Overworld, Andras Fox's gorgeous 2014 compositions for his friend's contemporary dance studio.
Timeless Town is an atmospheric album, but one that certainly doesn't assert the superiority of vibes over content as one oughts to give credit to Maxine Funke for writing and arranging some of the most beautiful songs released this year, starting with the title track and the opener, "Let's Go! Another Year": slowly whirling melodies, oscillating between minor and major chords with the elegance of say, Eddie Marcon. Definitely not too early to call it one of our favourite releases of 2025.
"Mild summers, coolish winters, down there in Dunedin, New Zealand, were the oceanic climate storms around. Here she writes her songs, here she listens to the wind, catches sea breezes." (M/M - wholesale: shops, contact us)
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