The Quietus | Reviews | Ashley Paul
Ray. The London-based multi-instrumentalist's latest collection of delightful oddities features her newly formed trio with Yoni Silver (bass clarinet) and Otto Willberg (double bass). A sense of patched-togetherness permeates this lockdown suite, while feeling, still, uncannily cohesive. It’s hard to believe that Ray – an album whose organic texture recalls the closeness of an intimate venue – was assembled remotely, once more proving proximity overrated. Paul’s sparse aesthetics of heavily deconstructed drawn-out melodies, focusing on the space in-between, stretch the definition o...