Patrick Clarke
, April 27th, 2021 08:16
Rotterdam noise-rock musician Alicia Breton Ferrer spent lockdown going solo. A year later, she s emerged with a unique and intense document of a time like no other
In the days before the pandemic, musician Alicia Breton Ferrer was fronting two bands. Longstanding noise outfit The Sweet Release of Death had not long finished touring to support their third album
The Blissful Joy Of Living. Following particularly gruelling recording sessions, after the shows “we were alive again,” the musician says on a video call from her home in Rotterdam. Her other group, the experimental rock project Neighbours Burning Neighbours, were just picking up steam after their punchy first two singles ‘Grace’ and ‘Softly’, and were hoping to enter the studio for an album after a run of summer gigs. Then, of course, “everything fell apart. We’re all sort of on standby because we all really live for live music.”