Claire Rousay + More Eaze - An Afternoon Whine

Claire Rousay is an artist who's been creating and releasing music at an impressive rate for the last few years, but for one reason or another (or probably no reason at all), i've not really engaged directly with any of it. Not enough hours etc. This latest record on Ecstatic, a collaboration with More Eaze (yep, new to me also), is the reason to put myself straight. Now, what to call this? There's a few different intersecting stylistic elements at play here that make genre assignations a little redundant - field recordings, modern composition, post-rock(!), Grouper-like dreampop, ambient/minimal electronics, and somehow, amidst all that, an oddpop sensibility. I suppose then, this is post-internet music, the sound of all sorts of diffuse ideas collapsing in on one another, or at least finding common space in which they can co-exist. An Afternoon Whine is very much music of this cultural moment, in a way like Perila, Laila Sakini, Lucrecia Dalt++, restlessly thinking beyond confines, partly in service to the formation of its own creative language, partly just doing whatever it likes. Rousay seems to be creating too quickly to be limited by such things as genre and it's an approach that works well when bouncing off a collaborator. There's a sound of a toilet flushing on this record and i really quite liked it. Not sure if that says more about me or the vision of this pair.