Luminous new "future emo" from Tsunxmi
In Broken on reflection, Tsunxmi leads listeners into a Lynchian world of digital dream logic and nightmare fuel, with characteristic skill and artistic abandon. Harmony and discord intertwine sweetly, as textures envelope and then abandon the listener. There is no predicting what direction this iconoclastic post-everything, “future emo” album will go next.
Aptly describing her music as “post-internet,” Tsunxmi’s new album feels like the digital age coming alive and confronting you with chaos, even as she incorporates visceral tape loops and other tools from the analog era. Drone, minimalistic vocals, spacey guitars, and nods to free jazz and harsh noise mark the landscape. Equal parts stirring and remote, Broken on reflection is the soundtrack for navigating the liminal phases between asleep and awake, present and past, online and off.
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