Spin is enough to make our heads spin. Sasha Cay’s debut album is indeed so bittersweet that it delicately makes us lose our footing while we are bathed in an ocean of sounds lo-fi which are remotely similar to those of artists like Land of Talk. The deceptive calm of an inner storm, one might say. Duality is, in a way, the element that would best define this record where the sung murmurs of the Montreal singer-songwriter and filmmaker meet. We find there an intimate statement on the incredible violence of existence, a hint of humor, of lucidity perhaps too, and melancholic melodies, nevertheless electrifying. Let us highlight the skin-deep sensitivity that emerges from each of the pieces, without exception, and which takes us into a nonchalant whirlwind of cathartic emotions. Special mention deserves to be given to Sasha Cay’s unsettling mastery of slowness, as in Do I And Loose Teeth.
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