Anne Sulikowski is the driving force behind Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks, a project that fuses abstract songwriting with highly unconventional electronics, resulting in a magical blend of electroacoustic ambience, and disembodied vocal loveliness. If you could imagine AGF minus the html poetry hang-ups, you might arrive at something akin to these beguiling soundscapes. ‘All You Leave Behind is a particularly exceptional example of Sulikowski’s talents, combining sustained digital bitstreams with submerged vocals and microtonally detuned melodies. Elsewhere, drumkits get reshuffled into new shapes on the BCOOM hard drive, and the song structure varies between liquefied drones, as on ‘This Is Our Goodbye’, and more beat-driven outings like ‘Voices’. Highly unusual and creative rethinks of songwriting throughout.
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