"In the six years between recording her last two albums, Lia Ices relocated from the east coast of the US to the Californian mountains and became a mother. 'Family Album' is, she says, "terroir"; the wine-making term, for the way something is shaped by the environment in which it was made, underlines the shift to bucolic, barefoot folk from the glitchy experimentation of 2014's 'Ices' ... The album runs from the breezy Americana of "Young On The Mountain" to the golden hour psychedelia of "Hymn", Ices' vocal, like an earth mother Courtney Marie Andrews, a connecting thread".
