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There Was No End - Andrey Kiritchenko and Sara Lunden | |||||||||||||||||
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 Tinged with a blurred, slightly out of focus quality, the collaboration between Andrey Kiritchenko and Sara Lunden inconspicuously slithers from pieces predominated by rhythms and the fragmented interplay of loops, towards others of more consensual forms, in which the emphasis on drones and textural layering results in a striking density of sound. Bridging the lacuna which separates these two realms is the voice of indie pop songstress, Mrs. Lunden, whose tangled tales of impersonal relationships forges pleasing, and sometimes striking, contrasts with the music. There is a mottled melancholia to Don’t You Remember. Above the sedate, sinuous groove, swirling organ-like chords, and fragile electronic detail, the dramatic sonority of Lunden’s voice fills out the cold, unsettling manner of the arrangement. Other tracks, specifically Take Your Chance When You Have It, where light strumming and sustained guitar distortion glide along undulating waves of smoldering melodic noise, possess a dark, blurry psychedelic lilt. Whereas a lot of such folk-electronica drifts into a muddy uniformity, the programming of Kiritchenko is more dynamic and complex. Owing to this fact, works such as Erotic Dreams and Tonight shift from a becalmed ambience to flurries of arpeggiation and remain resolute in their floating otherness. Only twenty-four minutes in length, as a mini-album, it holds much promise for future exchanges. Review by Max Schaefer
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