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A mood of high seriousness pervades, but Spirit Exit’s blend of spirituality and futurism is often transfixing.
7mo
76
For music that evokes empty clubs and shuttered churches, built on patterns dictated by a “mechanical fortune teller,” its humanity is its most haunting quality.
7mo
70
Spirit Exit sees Milan-based composer Caterina Barbieri reacting to that turbulent period of bodily fear, anxiety and existential uncertainty with an album’s worth of beautiful synth music that’s as tense as it is free.
6mo
70
Spirit Exit feels like a peaceful chaos emanating from a vast portal of emptiness. Equal part blissful and mysterious, Barbieri’s arpeggiated synth passages narrate an abstract story that is both melancholic and charged with energy.
6mo
The sonic pyrotechnics of Caterina Barbieri hypnotically swell and bloom on this record. Her neon synth lines zig-zag between transfixing and foreboding.
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Some moments of life call for music that is sunny and upbeat, while others for dark and gloomy and then there is time for reflection and ease. On Spirit Exit, the fifth studio album from ambient and electronic producer Caterina Barbieri, you get a little sense of every one of those feelings. The multi-layers of synths and sprawling nature of the music makes the whole listen feel like being trapped in a different place, between dream and reality. Moods in the music shift gradually, between the ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | At Your Gamut 7:06 | 85 |
| 2 | Transfixed 5:13 | 76 |
| 3 | Canticle of Cryo 7:42 | 77 |
| 4 | Knot of Spirit 10:19 | 67 |
| 5 | Broken Melody 4:26 | 82 |
| 6 | Life at Altitude 7:49 | 81 |
| 7 | Terminal Clock 5:01 | 79 |
| 8 | The Landscape Listens 8:17 | 81 |
Total Length: 55 minutes
Year End Lists
| #35 | / | NPR Music |
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Added on: April 21, 2022