The harmonium and organ accompaniment flow well with the clicking beats, but from there the album submerges into blurry, indistinct washes, as individualized tracks give way to Calix's mutability, stirring the percussion and digital debris about, never letting the bits quite settle to the bottom nor revealing her recipe. "Paarl" and "Shadenfreude" feature Mira's vocals, but once again they remain far too low in the mix, making me wonder whether she doesn't trust her voice, or is trying to make a subliminal mix-tape. This boat doesn't go anywhere, merely floating and turning in place, but your head spins nevertheless, blissfully discombobulated. Calix mixes together guitar feedback, wind chimes, and her almost untraceable voice as piano recital patterns return to awkwardly move it along. "The Wolf, the Sheep, & the Door" is slightly more kinetic, conjuring up the deep drums of Haruomi Hosono's Cochin Moon while simultaneously working out the combination on a safe, ticking away, slowly immersing her vocals in a salty ocean of fizzling crackles.Īs it flows downstream, you become aware of far-off echoes of gamelan percussion coming from the overgrown databanks of this river, as well as the innocent tricklings of keyboards, leading slowly into the record's centerpiece, "I May Be Over There (But My Heart is Over Here)". The beats don't formally appear until track three, "Woody", and they quickly skitter and dribble away like mercury as the gongs resonate, her low-mixed voice drifting in and out of consciousness. Skimskitta opens with some e-bowed guitar and glitch noise, before moving into the unadorned piano and rasping breaths of "Poussou". It's all about the mix, a steady shifting of textures and unobtrusive rhythmic circles that careen like spinning plates, their centers slowly wobbling, deteriorating as the next pattern begins to assimilate and congeal. Her latest effort for Warp shows she's been doing basically the same thing as she was that night, looking for the perfect dream state rather than the perfect beat.
That was years back, and I wondered what she'd been up to this whole time.
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