Last November Ms. Minerva accepted the invitation of a close friend to flee the grey haze of another East London winter for a retreat amidst the seaside serenities of Lisbon. This oasis experience allowed her to incubate with lyrics, loops, pedals, and melodies at an empty exhibition space nearby to create her second full-length, Will Happiness Find Me?

The album connects the dots between pirate radio pop, tape-faded tone studies, wanderlust lullabies, club dee-lights, and, ambient hip-hop melancholia. Given that so many contemporary aesthetic evolutions move from raw and odd to polished and obvious, it’s invigorating to hear Maria swimming in the other direction: “My heart is like a microphone / just talk into it.”

Mastered at Dubplates.
Designed by A & B Brown.

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