Reservoir by Gordi

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2017 | Alternative | Pop

"The name Reservoir, it's that thing that you can't describe, that space that anxious people would probably live their life in. It's actually an expression my friend and I use. If I'm really down one day, I'll say, 'Oh I'm a bit in the reservoir today'. You're mulling everything over, and you're sitting in all these thoughts and feelings. In order to be able to write a song I need to go to that place, but I couldn't live a functional life if I spent all my time in there." Writing music, in fact, is the way Gordi lifts herself out of the Reservoir. "Writing music has always been and will remain my therapy, my process and my way of communicating," she explains. "I don't write songs by someone else's prescription, I write to fill my own need. I get this tightness in my chest, and nothing will make it go away other than trying to write lyrics or sitting down at a piano and playing it, and it's like a medicine. If I have a good session of that, then that tightness and that weight just totally lifts. It just centres me, and gets the things that are riddled through my mind out on paper. And then I can leave them there." Gordi's voice and her music very quickly caught the attention of her label-mates Bon Iver who asked her to perform backing vocals for them during their performance of 8 (Circle) on the Jimmy Fallon US show at the tail end of last year. Gordi returned the favour with a quite breath-taking acapella cover of 00000 Million which you can listen to here. She has also toured with the likes of Asgeir, Tallest Man on Earth, Highasakite, Local Natives and Of Monsters and Men. As an opening statement, Reservoir is a compelling listen that plays fondly with textures and leftfield rhythms, but crucially, at its very heart is melody in abundance.

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Jagjaguwar

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alternative pop