The latest addition to 4AD, @ (pronounced “At”) is the folk pop project of Stone Filipczak and Victoria Rose combining midi and analog elements in a home recorded environment. The project was born of the COVID pandemic, with the two sending files to one another between Baltimore and Boston via text message until their debut album,
Mind Palace Music [2023, Carpark], was completed. Rose and Filipczak are just as inspired by the thoughtful delicacy of ambient pioneers like Laurie Spiegel as they are by the timeless quality of singer-songwriters like Vashti Bunyan. Such combinations of influences and others like prog rock can be heard in various iterations across their short catalogue, which also includes last year’s EP
Are You There God? It’s Me, @. The duo is working on a second album which will be their debut release for 4AD.
@at__computer | atcomputer.bandcamp.com
Insides
Ambient pop duo Insides is the mastermind of singer/bassist Kirsty Yates and guitarist/programmer Julian Tardo. They released their 1993 debut album
Euphoria and the following year’s 38-minute instrumental piece
Clear Skin on 4AD’s Guernica imprint. Today
Euphoria is hailed as a lost treasure; its glacial soundworld of eerie electronics and dispassionate vocals were at the forefront of a nascent British post rock scene. Insides were part of the
13 Year Itch line-up and it is a delight to welcome the duo back to the ICA for
Milk A Bull.
@insideskandj | insides1.bandcamp.com
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Claire Rousay
Claire Rousay is a singular artist, known for challenging conventions in experimental and ambient music forms. The Canadian-American masterfully incorporates textural found sounds, sumptuous drones and candid field recordings into music that celebrates the beauty in life’s banalities. Her music is curatorial and granular in detail, deftly shaped into emotionally affecting pieces. Rousay’s latest album,
Sentiment, was released on 2024 via Thrill Jockey.
@clairerousay | clairerousay.bandcamp.com
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James Krivchenia
Known for his work as one-third of Big Thief, James Krivchenia’s solo electronic work is the result of experiments with his conceptual particle colliders – an interlocking of idea and process, of determinism and chance, of abstraction and concreteness. Krivchenia releases his fourth solo album,
Performing Belief, on storied electronic label Planet Mu this Spring. Building thickets from gathered sounds interwoven with synths, drum machines and other samples, at the album’s core is a lush, opulent matrix of percussion ranging from the familiar – hand claps and drum machines – to the mysteriously verdant, sampled largely from Krivchenia’s own field recording collection.
@james_krivchenia | jameskrivchenia.bandcamp.com
