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LTR040Holland AndrewsDoubtless / Answers2024
Along with the digital release of their fourth EP with LEITER, ‘Answers’, the multi-disciplinary American composer and performer Holland Andrews shares a limited edition vinyl containing all new music plus the previously released four-track collection ‘Doubtless’.
‘Doubtless’ – out in 2022 – was informed by a string of various residencies, among them sessions at LEITER’s studio within Berlin’s celebrated Funkhaus complex, where Nils Frahm himself contributed to the lead single ‘Rules’. The EP maintains a luxurious, transcendent(al) quality throughout, with ‘Surrender’ calling upon Andrews’ voice, clarinet and synthesisers, and ‘Grief’ reaching beyond the substantial towards the celestial.
‘Answers’ is the fourth and final release in a series of EPs Andrews began releasing in 2021. From the opening track ‘Wonder’, the new collection opens with Andrews conjuring of a vast magical soundscape, where glittering ambient textures erupt into pulsating crescendos of dissonance. Andrews possesses a unique set of musical skills, which are deftly melded throughout the EP.
Andrews’ music evades easy categorization, evoking strands of contemporary classical, ambient, electronic, and experimental music. “Where do I belong? That’s tricky for me.” Andrews says. “I have this voracious quality of just wanting to keep playing and keep exploring.” Like their past collaborators Son Lux, Darian Donovan Thomas, William Brittelle, and Christina Vantzou, Andrews has found a home at the nexus point of diverging sounds.