Deradoorian

Find The Sun

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.

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 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.

Find The Sun is an unsurprisingly great album from a curiously underappreciated artist, and an unassuming one at that.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.