26 Jun 2012 — Henning Lahmann
When you've come across Kelsie Brown aka
Red Alder's music before,
here or
here or somewhere else, then you already know that her music, sublimely beautiful as it invariably is, can be an unsettling listen, as if she tried to put all the world's sadness into a couple of minutes of notes and rests in order to banish it - of course, we've heard melancholic music before, but there's something about young Ms Brown's recital that leaves us devastated and shivering each and every single time. Yet still, "Methods", the last song from her new 11-song collection
Hyper Vertical, appears even more forlorn than before - its structures are raw, sparse, and understated to a degree that it almost hurts. It is, in other words, a song that we find, on this very Tuesday morning, almost too sad to stand, but at the same time also almost too beautiful to believe.
Hyper Vertical is out now. Get it
here.
