marked

A nocturnal, drone-shot view of a city, a city you can find anywhere in America, opens the explosive visualizer for “blow the whistle.” Over loops of distorted tape feedback, Klein and her friends frolic around a barren, post-industrial wasteland. It’s the kind of track that can leave any listener in a hypnotic trance. Yet this is nothing new for Klein, her music located at a no-space intersecting campy Disney musicals, Zeus TV, liminal spaces, and tropes of modern classical, ... read more

Klein is one of those artists who’s inventiveness knows no bounds - temporal nonconformity, liminality, hard-to-pin-down but vibrantly present emotion, and dreamlike urban soundscape are all qualities her music has possessed thus far and been expressed in a shockingly new manner on ever project. This album adds a very noteworthy layer to it all by using her inventiveness to make an incredibly Klein sounding album that is driven and focused around guitars. The way they talk and drift on ... read more

marked is a jagged, spectral collage where Klein’s bold experimentation lands more often than it falters—an 70-point album whose raw emotional textures and fractured sound design mesmerize, even if its abstraction occasionally drifts beyond its own gravity.

A complete what-the-fuck of a listen, Klein’s marked is a bold and brazen work in field music that subverts the most unsung aspects of guitar rock into some of the most ambitious ambient and drone music you will ever hear. The result is the soundtrack to a barren wasteland that seems like its attempting to gain a sense of salience — like Mother Earth coming to life to seek retribution from the pilferers that have infamously taken much of its essence.

The album beckons and pleas ... read more