Niecy Blues announces her debut album, Exit Simulation

Niecy Blues describes her songwriting process like an undertow: “I feel a strange pull, and let it carry me, following swirling leaves... whole days roll by, forgetting about the body.”

Their full-length debut, Exit Simulation, captures this sense of deep-rooted divination, cycling between simmering ballads, ghosted R&B, downtempo gospel, and looped vocal improvisations – often within the same track. The title is taken from a science fiction novel she read during the purgatory of the pandemic, alluding to a dimensional ideation of departure – “the permission to imagine leaving.”

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Recorded in her current home of Charleston, she characterises the album’s mood in terms both reflective and raw: an exploration of things suppressed, foundations beginning to crack, “talking myself off a ledge.”

The music of Niecy Blues is inspired by her youth spent in a religious Oklahoma household: “My first experience with ambient music was church – slow songs of worship, with delay on the guitar... even if you don’t believe, you feel something.”

Tracklist:

1. 1111
2. THE NITE B4
3. U CARE
4. VIOLENTLY ROOTED
5. EXIT SIMULATION
6. EXITS
7. SOMA
8. MESSAGES FROM ABOVE
9. LAMENT
10. VIOLENTLY ROOTED REPRISE
11. THE ARCHITECT
12. ANALYSIS PARALYSIS
13. CASCADE