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Discreet reach beyond their customary Nordic purview for the debut full length LP from Philadelphia-based musician and visual artist, Carrie DeCunzo Mirande. If, like me, the music is new to you, then the name at least might ring some bells. Indeed, Discreet themselves admit to discovering Decunzo Mirande's work when she performed alongside Christian Mirande in Gothenburg in 2024, and that connection is part way helpful in understanding the strange melange of spoken word, field recordings and general electronic fuckery at play here. My Shadow is a brazenly fractured and, at times, illogical confluence of unusual sounds and detours that inexplicably flips between late-period style Bjork ambi-ballads, vocal cut-ups, bird song and humming psychoactive drone, an often uncanny digital synthesis that in its way re-modernises the remit for New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media. Fans of aforementioned namesake Christian and the less pop-aspects of Bjork will enjoy plenty here, and there are trace elements of Laurie Anderson and Angel Deradorrian in the vocal manipulations/play. An interesting next step from Discreet with a more distinctly American register than we're ordinarily accustomed to hearing from them, and with it perhaps signifying the birthing of a new chapter for a label that likes to keep you on your toes.
FFO: Christian Mirande, late-period Bjork, Laurie Anderson, Angel Deradorrian
