Like a bird or spirit, not a face

"This is a startling and exciting bit of music-making comprising of territory-roaming, boundary-pushing genre fusion. From Namtchylak you can expect everything from guttural growls, piercing shrieks, strangulated creaks, coquettishly childlike or soulfully rich vocals and some staggering harmonics. She is a singer with an impressive seven-octave range. But there's also birdsong, desert blues throb, jaw's harp, menacing bass lines, sleigh bells and producer Ian Brennan's lurching, disorientating loops of ambient sound. It is at once artfully beautiful and gut-lurchingly strange. Amongst all the chaos are sudden moments of pure simple clarity such as sparse "The Snow Fall Without You", a spacious and beautiful song, with elegant vocals in English over [Eyadou] Ag Leche's sweetly melodic guitar lines and [Said] Ag Ayad's trademark Tuareg calabash percussion".