Lael Neale is a Charlottesville area native who recently moved back to the area and her third album “Star Eaters Delight” distinguishes her as a lo-fi singer songwriter with a voice and instrumental approach that sound like no other artist today.
Neale’s last album was recorded straight to cassette using only an omnichord, a digital autoharp sound alike, as accompaniment. For the new album she adds other instruments to the mix and collabortates with her producer/guitarist Guy Blakeslee on a set of songs that celebrate the space she has gained in her life since moving from Los Angeles.
The experimental nature of her last album is expanded and her otherworldly voice warbles over a unique mix of guitar, organ, mellotron, drum machine and her bewitching omnichord.
Neale says about her return to her family’s farm, ”I walk every day and don’t see anybody and don’t hear anybody and it’s truly isolated and beautiful. I have so much freedom. I have time and it feels very abundant.” That theme of abundance is what sets the album “Star Eaters Delight” apart and points to Lael Neale as an artist with a unique perspective.
