{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Desert Window | type = studio | border = yes | artist = Lucy Gooch | cover = Lucy Gooch – Desert Window.jpg | released = {{Start date|2025|06|06|df=yes}} | genre = | length = 41:52 | label = Fire | producer = Alistair Lax | prev_title = Rushing | prev_year = 2020 | next_title = | next_year = |misc = {{Singles|name=Desert Window|type=studio|single1=Like Clay|single1date=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.<ref name="LoBF">{{Cite web |last=Young |first=Matt |date=4 June 2025 |title=Lucy Gooch: ''Desert Window'' review – artistic evolution |url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/albums/lucy-gooch-desert-window-patience-introspection-power |access-date=8 June 2025 |website=The Line of Best Fit |language=en-US}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Murray |first=Robin |last2= |first2= |date=4 March 2025 |title=Lucy Gooch Announces Debut Album ''Desert Window'' |url=https://www.clashmusic.com/news/lucy-gooch-announces-debut-album-desert-window/ |access-date=8 June 2025 |website=Clash |language=en-GB}}</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings |rev1=AllMusic |rev1score={{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="Am" /> |rev2=''The Line of Best Fit'' |rev2score={{Rating|7|10}}<ref name="LoBF" /> |rev3=''Uncut'' |rev3score={{Rating|8|10}}<ref name="Un" /> }} 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."<ref name="Am">{{Cite web |last=Simpson |first=Paul |title=''Desert Window'' – Lucy Gooch |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/desert-window-mw0004492958 |access-date=8 June 2025 |website=AllMusic |language=en}}</ref>
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."<ref name="Un">{{Cite news |last=Hughes |first=Rob |date=July 2025 |title=Lucy Gooch – ''Desert Window'' |work=Uncut |pages=29}}</ref>
''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."<ref name="LoBF" />
==Track listing== {{Track listing | headline = ''Desert Window'' track listing | all_writing = Lucy Gooch | total_length = 41:52 | title1 = Like Clay | length1 = 3:01 | title2 = Night Window – Part One | length2 = 4:44 | title3 = Night Window – Part Two | length3 = 5:34 | title4 = Keep Pulling Me In | length4 = 6:12 | title5 = Jack Hare | length5 = 6:20 | title6 = Clouds | length6 = 5:35 | title7 = Our Relativity | length7 = 5:27 | title8 = Desert Window | length8 = 4:59 }}
==Personnel== Credits adapted from Tidal.<ref>{{cite web |title=Desert Window / Lucy Gooch / Credits |url=https://listen.tidal.com/album/415631430/credits |publisher=Tidal |access-date=9 June 2025 |date=6 June 2025}}</ref> * Lucy Gooch – lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, synthesizer * Alistair Lax – production, arrangement, bass guitar, guitar, piano, strings, synthesizer * Oliver Andrews – guitar, percussion, piano, synthesizer * Laura Cannell – alto recorder, violin * Rupert Clervaux – mastering * Harry Furniss – cornet * Jonny Hooker – mastering * Simon McCorry – cello * Jack Wyllie – saxophone
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Category:2025 debut albums Category:Fire Records (UK) albums