Joy one mile

"Joy One Mile is the most comprehensive document yet of Gualdi's new sound, and her most substantial release in some years. Each of these hardware-based compositions was road-tested live before being refined and recorded in a handful of takes. Fittingly, then-- and in contrast to the solipsistic repose of her earlier records-- their complex percussive patterns and glistening synth motifs fizz with barely restrained kinetic energy".

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"Every track on Joy One Mile overflows with ideas. Elements appear and disappear, basslines kick in unexpectedly, melodies emerge from chaotic beds of drums. The interplay between the scuffed drums and crystalline synths on "Elite Excel" is arguably the album's most bewitching moment. "Fascination" makes you wait a full three minutes before utopian chords kick in, while "Natives" bounces around with the awkward, angular energy of Fad Gadget".

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