Mary Sue and the Clementi Sound Appreciation Club - Porcelain Shield, Paper Sword La-Perla proves that hope doesn’t necessarily

proves that hope doesn’t necessarily win but that

genre-bending versatility that only seems to sharpen with each new effort

as the title suggests

” Lady Wray says

But the first track Samira wrote for the record was actually “In My Basement Room

Mary Sue and the Clementi Sound Appreciation Club - Porcelain Shield, Paper Sword La-Perla proves that hope doesn’t necessarilyAvailable on black wax This is what you get when an emcee producer is fed on a diet of abstract hip hop, Southeast Asian samples, and Taoist folklore. Together with the Clementi Sound Appreciation Club (a five piece band of up and coming musicians schooled in jazz from the local scene in Singapore), Mary Sue melts samples with live instrumentation on Porcelain Shield, Paper Sword. At the core of the album is the tale of a time traveling oracle,