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Desert Window

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Desert Window
Studio album by
Lucy Gooch
Released6 June 2025 (2025-06-06)
Length41:52
LabelFire
ProducerAlistair Lax
Lucy Gooch chronology
Rushing
(2020)
Desert Window
(2025)
Singles from Desert Window
  1. "Like Clay"
    Released: 4 March 2025

Desert Window is the debut studio album by English musician Lucy Gooch. It was released on 6 June 2025 by Fire Records in vinyl and digital formats.

The album consists of eight tracks with a total runtime of approximately forty-two minutes, each song ranging between three and six minutes. It incorporates elements of folk and ambient music.[1] Released five years after Gooch's 2020 debut EP, Rushing, the album features the lead single, "Like Clay", which was released on 4 March 2025.[2]

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Line of Best Fit[1]
Uncut[4]

AllMusic's Paul Simpson described the album as "a more fleshed-out expansion of her sound, incorporating more acoustic instrumentation as well as more complex choral harmonies."[3]

Rob Hughes of Uncut rated the album eight out of ten and stated, "Lucy Gooch's early life as a chorister feeds into Desert Window's beauteous soundscapes, looping her gentle soprano voice over gauzy layers of synths in a seamless shift of classical, ambient, jazz and dream-folk textures."[4]

The Line of Best Fit assigned a rating of seven out of ten to the album and described it as "a masterclass in atmospheric tension and release, a record that feels both ancient and contemporary, grounded and otherworldly."[1]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Lucy Gooch.

Desert Window track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Like Clay"3:01
2."Night Window – Part One"4:44
3."Night Window – Part Two"5:34
4."Keep Pulling Me In"6:12
5."Jack Hare"6:20
6."Clouds"5:35
7."Our Relativity"5:27
8."Desert Window"4:59
Total length:41:52

Personnel

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Credits adapted from Tidal.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Young, Matt (4 June 2025). "Lucy Gooch: Desert Window review – artistic evolution". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 8 June 2025.
  2. ^ Murray, Robin (4 March 2025). "Lucy Gooch Announces Debut Album Desert Window". Clash. Retrieved 8 June 2025.
  3. ^ a b Simpson, Paul. "Desert Window – Lucy Gooch". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 June 2025.
  4. ^ a b Hughes, Rob (July 2025). "Lucy Gooch – Desert Window". Uncut. p. 29.
  5. ^ "Desert Window / Lucy Gooch / Credits". Tidal. 6 June 2025. Retrieved 9 June 2025.