Ali Lacey started Novo Amor as a project of sorts: an act of defiance after a breakup, but along the way, quite unexpectedly, she found something rewarding.
A summer spent beside a tree-lined lake in upstate New York served as inspiration for the creation of her debut album Birthplace (2018) and her follow-up Cannot Be, Whatsoever (2020). The latter was created in a Cardiff house that was half home, half studio, a place where the distant hum of a neighboring street party, the fireworks of Bonfire Night and the seagulls congregating on the field next door echoed. they mixed in their recordings. With Cannot Be, Whatsoever, Lacey contemplated a past filled with songs of quiet hope and longing. "I can still see the lake in upstate New York when I think of 'Birthplace,' the songs protected by that place I idealized that doesn't really exist anymore. These new songs seem almost optimistic. If Birthplace is the countryside, then Cannot Be is the city."
In 2022, after having been on an expedition with Greenpeace in Antarctica, with the aim of investigating the impacts of the climate crisis on penguin populations in Antarctica, Antarctica Dream Machine was born, a completely instrumental album composed of 10 songs inspired in the journey and the sounds of the Arctic.