Metalepsis

Since the release of her debut albumMetalepsisin 2015, Alexandra Drewchin's Eartheater project has evolved into new performance styles and cycled through a diverse menu of genres, while she has introduced her music to scenes and new contexts all over the world over years of international touring. With Hausu Mountain's reissue ofMetalepsis,appearing on vinyl for the first time with updated artwork,we travel back five years to a period of her work where you would more likely find Drewchin's three-octave voice swooping through gorgeous cascading melodies as she fingerpicks through ornate chord progressions on her acoustic guitar, rather than pouring out lacerating noise texture and technoid beat structures from a pair of CDJs. The idea that these two (of many) sides of her project are at odds with each other, however, is a total fallacy, as Eartheater's holistic practice remains in a state of constant recombination and willful juxtaposition. Her recent sets have come to balance her heavier post-club material with a reincorporation of long passages of stripped down voice-and-guitar performance. With this in mind, a reconsideration ofMetalepsiscould not come at a better time.Tracks like the majestic 'Homonyms' and the stripped-down finale 'Infinity' float the closest to legible structures in keeping with folk artists like Vashti Bunyan or Linda Perhacs. Drewchin's songs latch into temporary cycles for a few stanzas before jetting off into one-off flights of harmony that stand behi

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Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Eartheater
Release Date: 09 August 2019
Genre: Dance & Electronic
Label: Redeye/Hausu Mountain
Distributor: MGM Music