In this follow-up to 2023’s excellent A New Reality Mind, the Oakland indie artist brings expansive, experimental electronic dynamism and particularly rich texture to her music, working with friends Ben Sloan and Stephen Patota, and exploring themes of broken relationships, solitude, idealised romance, resentment, and womanhood. Her vocal delivery and bold explorative work is at times reminiscent of Kate Bush, and the complexity, cross-rhythmic and guitar work, creative drumming with fluttering synth layering is particularly striking. Opener Scoop’s lyrics ponder on relationship games and mistakes (“I wanna curse the man I’ve never known”) but skips along with a wild, galloping freedom. I Never scatters delicate rhythms and synths across palette of sounds, soft, exploratory bass and wild vocals. Breakdown is gentler, more acoustic, Slap’s vocals are particularly like mid-80s Bush, with flurries of orchesral synths and restless drumming. Other standouts include a is otherworldy Semitones, with ghostly whispers and throbbing bass and alien-ish synths, and the slow, intimate closer All I Need. A bold, beautiful and fascinating release that increasingly rewards over several listens. Out on Carpark Records.
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