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- Record Label: Shelter Press
- Release Date: Apr 22, 2022
- Summary: The latest release from San Antonio-based Claire Rousay features two 15-minute tracks with contributions from Alex Cunningham, Marilu Donovan, Mari Maurice, and Theodore Cale Schafer.
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- Record Label: Shelter Press
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Apr 26, 2022Characteristically, she doesn’t offer up any concrete solutions on Everything Perfect is Already Here. Instead, by listening to her music, and how she weighs every element with equal care, we’re able to stop and begin to find gratitude for the moments we might have once ignored, however fleeting they may be.
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May 24, 2022It's her most capital-A ambient album, without the sometimes harsh interference of her favored found sounds and field recordings. Yet at the same time, it's so quiet that it slips into the edges of comprehension just when you've determined you're going to get to the bottom of it. All the better to listen to it again to see what you missed—and then again, and again and again.
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Apr 26, 2022Between Rousay’s drones and disruptions, melodics and arguments, the album becomes a place for feeling in the present, untethered by time, as familiar as a memory and as placeless as a dream.
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MojoApr 26, 2022Everything Perfect Is Already Here avoids emotional overload, instead offering solace and a loving embrace, a haven of calm and normality. [Jun 2022, p.86]
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Apr 26, 2022Her tracks might be improvised or labored upon. They feel both sui generis and tossed off. You can hear her hand, and it makes you wonder, and in that way her recordings are empathy machines. They warm and flatter as they fill the air around you, silk scarves just out of reach.