# Desert Window

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{{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](/source/Fire_Records_(UK))
| 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](/source/Fire_Records_(UK)) 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](/source/Folk_music) and [ambient music](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Clash_Magazine) |language=en-GB}}</ref>

==Reception==
{{Music ratings
|rev1=[AllMusic](/source/AllMusic) |rev1score={{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="Am" />
|rev2=''[The Line of Best Fit](/source/The_Line_of_Best_Fit)'' |rev2score={{Rating|7|10}}<ref name="LoBF" />
|rev3=''[Uncut](/source/Uncut_(magazine))'' |rev3score={{Rating|8|10}}<ref name="Un" />
}}
[AllMusic](/source/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](/source/AllMusic) |language=en}}</ref>

Rob Hughes of ''[Uncut](/source/Uncut_(magazine))'' 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](/source/Uncut_(magazine)) |pages=29}}</ref>

''[The Line of Best Fit](/source/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](/source/Tidal_(service)).<ref>{{cite web |title=Desert Window / Lucy Gooch / Credits |url=https://listen.tidal.com/album/415631430/credits |publisher=[Tidal](/source/Tidal_(service)) |access-date=9 June 2025 |date=6 June 2025}}</ref>
* Lucy Gooch – lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, synthesizer
* Alistair Lax – [production](/source/Record_producer), [arrangement](/source/arrangement), bass guitar, guitar, piano, strings, synthesizer
* Oliver Andrews – guitar, percussion, piano, synthesizer
* [Laura Cannell](/source/Laura_Cannell) – [alto recorder](/source/alto_recorder), violin
* Rupert Clervaux – [mastering](/source/Mastering_(audio))
* Harry Furniss – [cornet](/source/cornet)
* Jonny Hooker – mastering
* Simon McCorry – [cello](/source/cello)
* [Jack Wyllie](/source/Jack_Wyllie) – saxophone

==References==
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Category:2025 debut albums
Category:Fire Records (UK) albums

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