Music Re/View 3

All Photo-Manipulations: October 2018

With grace and precision, the stage is set/Her new record feels like a reaction against the last[lbum that feels like it was constructed in ZERO-GRAVITY conditions]Its com

 “Every time I write a record, it’s partially a process of healing”

ponents dance around each other, churning and shuffling/nstrmnts rrng thmslvs/nd shuffling/n bstrct pttrns/coinciding for a measure before returning to flux/rbtng lsly lk wghtlss spc dbrs/efore returning to flux(like weightless space debris)The lyrics are similarly diaphanous: colliding with each other, hovering above legibility

“What I love about those are just all the things that are left unsaid/oken from several positions simultaneousl/because there’s so much power there, when a line is cut off”

rbiting loosely like weightless space debris/the listener brought gently into this nomadic network of sounds

“It’s important to have fun/ne whose shifting mes/through the process of healing, rather than tying those knots even tighter”/is always making space for spontaneous emergences, potentialities, and virtualities

orbiting loosely like weightless space debri/lsly/wghtlss

In Wilmesdorf, south west Berlin(WEST BERLIN)there’s a wide-open green space hemmed by lush trees that almost hide the surrounding city skyline/Chrnt n thr nchrnc, playful in their experimentalism, their trunks buzzing with magnetism/t’s officially named Preußenpark, but to Berliners, it’s better known as Thai Park(THAI PARK)/It’s a disorienting starting point(IN WILMESDORF)on an album that revels in indeterminacy/On weekends, local Thai women(THAI PARK)set up makeshift stalls on the grass with colorful blankets and parasols, selling fresh salads, buns, and noodle dishes that theytoss and fry right in front of your eyes/grooves shuffle in and out of focu(in and out of focus)oustic percussion and piano chords meet woozy synth lines, and multiple voices appear to converse with one anothe(in and out of focus)If the weather’s good, you can occasionally catch them there on a weekday, too/omadic network of sounds/ttrctng th ttntn f plng blls, skrnkng sx, nd db-tchn bts(in and out of focus)

toss and fry right in front of your eyes/and fry right in front of your eyes/in front of your

Like Arthur Russell, this is pop music as experiment/a meshing together of approaches and traditions/ividing them between voices

“It’s about saying ‘fuck you’ to a bully...It’s like, I’m going to rise above, and I’m going to shut your noise out, because I don’t need to listen to it”

Concrete poets like de Campos were preoccupied with fusing text and ima(image and text)a playful mixture of tone poems/ften in purely visual or spatial ways, and their influence is tangible here/a background in free jazz

“It’s just the process of dismantling and defusing negative voices (‘fuck you’)”

percussive excursions, and off-kilter melody/reaking sentences into cryptic fragme/nto cryptic fragments/“and turning them into something positive”

a background in free jazz/a m o re im p li cit fr e e do m, a way of skilfully constructing un i qu e  m usica l  s o un d/and using vocals to texture a broader lattice of bass, percussion, and keys/permeates the entire record/Avant-garde percussion and saxophone might reveal a background in free jazz/hythm, alliteration, and an ASMR-like sensitivity/rmeates the entire recor/to mouth-made soun[alliteration, and an ASMR-like sensis]eem to drive the lyrical content as much as any urge to tell a story

a background in free jazz

Musically, these arrangements often combine disparate elemen(she does not mourn their loss)t only barely coexist peacefully in the same track/rtists don’t like to be pigeonholed in specific genres, they like to think their work is unique (she does not mourn their loss) nd cannot be filed alongside othe/She’s a master linguist in a dialect all her own/JUXTAPOSED NONSENSICALLY/stabs of game show synthesizers provide flashes of gaudy gold over the otherwise/NONSENSI/drab, grey surface provided by the flat-affect vocals/aster linguist in a dialect all her/adopting instead a studious, almost scientific stanc(she does not mourn their loss)Really, it's remarkable that any of it works at all/ith the occasional sounds of a dial-up tone, it is as if the various technologies of contemporary culture/hv ll cvd n n thmslvs/cllpsng/nto a heap of meaningless obsolescenc(she does not mourn their loss)

definitely the shit

Like the heroine in a Kathy Acker novel, these characters puncture the boundaries of(Kathy Acker)the social and enter into new territory both fraught with dange/sensory overload/ife with potentia/this is a very jazzy snazzy record so far/It’s the sound of runningLIKE HELL/occupying space/out of your comfort zone(clicks and whirrs)glass and glassy digitalia alike/rife with potentia/ith potential/the music moves, taking up positions, occupying space, becoming mediated by glass and glassy digitalia alike[clicks and whirrs]This utilitarian approach to happiness has been used by some of the world’s biggest brands, including Facebook, for their controversial (read: neocolonial) internet.org projec/accumulating sonic detritus — voicemail jingles, laughter[clicks and whirrs]sensory overload/It is indicative of the artful nature of this album/this album embraces collaboration, and sensory overload[clicks and whirrs]its sly attentiveness to the sonic geographies and political textures of the contemporary, that this connection is both felicitous and unsurpris

maybe it ws th m ddy/mudd/trnscdd mp3 leak/eak/or j u s t th wrng he a d s pace/nsory overload/bt th i s s hi t is dfnt l y th shit