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- Summary: The second full-length release from Berlin-based experimental electronic composer Maya Shenfeld includes the Youth Choir Ritterchor and field recordings made in Portugal.
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- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Feb 22, 2024Maya Shenfeld’s towering achievement is to craft a highly effective polemical record with no words, the music saying all that needs to be said: throw in imaginative sound design and a deft approach to pacing and the result is an out-and-out triumph.
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Feb 21, 2024Under the Sun is well crafted, interrogating the listener and experimental where it needs to be, gifting you with something to gain throughout.
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Feb 21, 2024‘Under The Sun’ isn’t an album to play while doing something else. It might start off as this but eventually you are listening intently, lost in its dense fug of sound and delicate melodies.
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MojoFeb 21, 2024An elegant, thought-provoking record. [Mar 2024, p.86]
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The WireFeb 23, 2024It’s gorgeous stuff, but whether the future she imagines is entropic or hopeful, it’s hard to say. [Mar 2024, p.57]
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Feb 28, 2024Under the Sun is eight tracks and 40 minutes long, but every move Maya Shenfeld makes across it seems to happen on a galactic scale. It’s hardly in slow motion, but it requires us to suspend our understanding of time and speed and space and understand something much bigger.
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Feb 29, 2024The piece ["Interstellar"] is easily the album's lightest and most optimistic moment, as the rest can feel cold, ominous, and sometimes challenging. Still, the album's more mysterious aspects make it worth hearing.