Sad, but not: sad-sad.
Lauren Auder makes cool, cool music: with all its surfacing glitches and wonder.
Pathetic fallacy and the like, ‘Rain’ instantly bringing more dreary associations – there is a bleakness that fills your ears before your awareness catches up to what you are to be listening to. Its tensions are shallowed, surfacing sombreness discerned, but it’s not coated in misery: it’s more affecting than affronting. There is elevation, elevation in realisation or elevation in fragmentation (a lift either way), allowing moments of gravity to righteously fall: as they should. It shakes awareness into you, your conscious state and your listening when edging to a closing it dwells upon, disturbing a set moment with its present utterings.
Also: heroic looking artwork: fun.