BAILEY MILLER - "Still Water" CSBailey Miller Still Water CS (Whited Sepulchre, 2022) "To say that something invokes the uncanny is to describe an experience of something familiar, or even something secret, encountered in an unfamiliar context. The uncanny is effectively a kind of tension between recognition and its absence. Producer, singer, and multi instrumentalist Bailey Millers debut full length, Still Water, relies on just such a tension, and therefore achieves a sense of the

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚡𝚝

” a piston-firing workout in which Weinstein’s slashing guitar cuts through synth detonations like a motorcycle in a minefield

battery-operated memories

On "Eid Ma Clack Shaw"

earworm melodies led by her luminous voice

and devotees

and serious music has no parallel

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Mystic Bill

It's simultaneously familiar and borderline "normal" sounding while being completely wrong and confusing

peppered with acid punk nihilism and with bright beams of pop shining through the clouds