An astonishing record, and a visitation from another realm.
There's humanity skating across this record, a collection of barely-touched ideas that allows listeners to float in place.
Find The Sun is an unsurprisingly great album from a curiously underappreciated artist, and an unassuming one at that.
Find the Sun is an uncompromising record from an artist intent on mining further depths, one that finds the beauty in unease — and a sense of purpose in the darkness.
There are not many solo artists who reflect their own personality in their music quite as honestly as Angel Deradoorian does, which is why this occasionally overblown mystical thesis can connect on such a personal, perhaps even spiritual, level.
The through-the-looking-glass explorations of It Was Me and Corsican Shores indicate more rarefied, lab-coated experimentation in the Stereolab mode, but the trajectory remains far-out, each track a space station on Deradoorian's exhilarating trip.
As an artist, she seeks to challenge her audience and ask them to take a step outside of their comfort zones. That Find the Sun manages to do this while being the most cohesive album that Deradoorian has recorded so far makes its existence all the more impressive.
Find the Sun is filled with insightful, poetic lyrics that reward attention, but the overall vibe of the album is best suited for a more meditative, perhaps semi-conscious state, allowing the sounds and rhythms to wash over you.
On her 2015 debut, rhythms of an ancient and tribal kind served Angel Deradoorian's wyrd-folk and magickal art-pop intent, but on her follow-up those pulses are the songs' meanings, as well as their delivery method.
It doesn't work when she wails and chants her way through the closing Sun, but she's absolutely fearless, as rigorous as The Moody Blues circa Days Of Future Passed and as adventurous as Can circa Future Days.
Angel Deradoorian is hard to pin down completely as a solo artist. A former member of Dirty Projectors, a group who have hosted a massive cast of names (I had never realized that Ezra Koenig spent a short period of time with them), Deradoorian wasn't merely a quick flash with the group. Instead, she was a co-lead of the group with longtime front-man David Longstreth for a number of years. I have never personally gotten incredibly in to Dirty Projectors, having only heard maybe one full album ... read more
In the 53 minute run time, there is about 15 minutes of brilliance. Sadly, the rest is incredibly boring.
Favorite tracks: Corsican Shores, Monk's Robes, Devil's Market
Least favorite: The Illuminator
Find the Sun is a completely immersive psych project that undulates between beauty and trepidation. The production work on this is so impeccably colourful and panoramic — it almost sounds live and raw. It's one of the most pragmatic and confrontational albums of the year.
Find the Sun, the second album from singer-songwriter Angel Deradoorian gives us songs shrouded in psychedelic trippiness that can sometimes take some obscure detours, but in general goes down pretty well. Deradoorian’s sweet voice keeps the listener engaged as she sings enticing vocal lines or stark spoken word with lyrics that reflect on the freeing and open spirit of the music found throughout. A good listen for any witching hour.
Favorite Tracks: Red Den, Corsican Shores, Saturnine ... read more
At times languid and others propulsive, yet always otherworldy; Find the Sun hints that greater things are to be expected.
Standouts: Saturnine Night, Monk's Robes, Corsican Shores, Waterlily
Dropouts: The Illuminator
Woa, didn't see this one coming - a peaceful dark place, with enough edge to keep things interesting. Kept this listener bewitched.
1 | Red Den 4:45 | |
2 | Corsican Shores 3:45 | |
3 | Saturnine Night 7:09 | |
4 | Monk’s Robes 4:46 | |
5 | The Illuminator 9:18 | |
6 | Waterlily 2:15 | |
7 | It Was Me 4:24 | |
8 | Devil’s Market 5:31 | |
9 | Mask of Yesterday 4:02 | |
10 | Sun 7:55 |
#84 | / | Under the Radar |