NPR MUSIC: Our Favorite Electronic & Dance Music of 2018
NPR MUSIC: Our Favorite Electronic & Dance Music of 2018
BY TOM HUIZENGA
“Flying, or should we say "swimming," below the radar, the digital-only Siren Islands is an album of mesmerizing beauty and slow-motion grandeur. Gracefully churning loops of undulating vocals, bubbling electric guitars and shifting synths submerge the listener into some imaginary underwater adventure. Born in Pakistan but now based in Brooklyn, Arooj Aftab carefully orchestrates her kaleidoscope of color, texture and repetition to produce a kind of ambience that is as calm as it is endlessly fascinating.”