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- Summary: The latest full-length release from electronic artist Jlin features guest appearances by Björk, Philip Glass, and Kronos Quartet.
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- Record Label: Planet Mu
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock
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Apr 1, 2024It's her strongest project to date, a thrilling fusion of classical and electronic music delivered in astounding clarity.
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Mar 21, 2024Like all of her best work, Akoma is heavy, mysterious and boundless. This is Jlin's world; we're just lucky enough to listen in.
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Mar 21, 2024Jlin has always reached across musical genres to create her music, and with Akoma, she reminds us again that genre is a malleable idea meant to be redefined and reshaped.
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Mar 21, 2024Throughout, Jlin's command over rhythm and texture make what could be too impenetrable a blast to hear.
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Mar 21, 2024Akoma represents another impressive step in Jlin's remarkable evolution as an artist.
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Apr 8, 2024She is constantly connected, consciously or not, with more rooted folk forms, from Ghanaian Ewe drumming and dance to Haitian funereal brass bands. Her results sound like none of that, but somewhere, underneath the layers of beats and snippets of melody, she tosses off like corn husks, dwells fossils, and bones with stories to tell us.
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Mar 29, 2024Many of these tracks do just straight up bang on an instinctual level. But in those times that this does work, when this really gets down to being something that ignites the mind and the heart, it does so very much in spite of its intellectual and artistic veneer, and not because of it.