She offers a kind of musical authority that is only fully realized by openly acknowledging and submitting to one's own vulnerability.
In a year overrun with countless horrors and innumerable cultural, social, political, and personal setbacks and pitfalls, All Thoughts Fly takes Orsini’s artistic expression of grief and imbues it with an unparalleled sense of beauty.
Without Von Hausswolff's astringent vocals, this solo instrumental album feels lighter on gates-of-doom atmosphere than previous work, but even so, whispers and echoes start to bounce off this record's walls, promising revelation at every turn.
All Thoughts Fly is undoubtedly a peculiar album, but absolutely one well worth investigation.
Von Hausswolff uses the organ’s full expressive range, exploring new sides of the instrument on each song without ever disrupting All Thoughts Fly’s essential solemnity.
It’s a charming and utterly enveloping release, and one worth setting aside some time to get lost within.
Anna von Hausswolff flexes her skills and imagination as an organist on All Thoughts Fly.
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