Every track on Joy One Mile overflows with ideas. Elements appear and disappear, basslines kick in unexpectedly, melodies emerge from chaotic beds of drums.
Gualdi has always employed a New Age-y vision with Stellar Om Source, but here she pairs her warm synth tones with the retro-futurist rush of Detroit techno and Chicago house, her added twist lifting the sounds and ideas (of artist like The Martian) to a place of abstraction.
Joy One Mile is the most comprehensive document yet of Gualdi’s new sound, and her most substantial release in some years.
#6 | / | FACT Magazine |
#45 | / | The Wire |