[alternative folk] (2025) Me Lost Me - This Material Moment [FLAC] [DarkAngie]

    Me Lost Me – This Material Moment (2025)

Review:
With each of her projects, Me Lost Me‘s Jayne Dent creates an all-encompassing world, and on This Material Moment, it’s one filled with tension and uncertainty. Though her previous album RPG revolved around the imaginary landscapes of video games, the tangible here and now her fourth full-length focuses on feels even less stable. One thing is certain: This Material Moment features some of Dent’s most emotional songwriting. The automatic writing techniques she learned during her studies with Julia Holter shook loose fears and confessions she could no longer avoid, and she confronts them and the “negative days” she outlines on the brooding album opener “Useful Analogies.” Dent skillfully uses language’s power to capture and subvert states of being on the clanging, crashout standout “Compromise,” where she sounds more defiant every time she sings the titular word. This Material Moment‘s return to reality downplays the electronics that made RPG teem with virtual life in favor of echoing spaces where the past and future coexist, and where Dent weaves classical, folk, industrial, and rock together seamlessly. On “A Painting of the Wind,” a bittersweet reflection on the gap between reality and representations of it, the harmonies and instrumentation allude to styles of music from many centuries before; “Have You Been Changing?” and “Ancient Summer” borrow from icy post-punk, yet they all feel of a piece. The cavernous sonics heighten the timeless quality of Me Lost Me’s music on luminous, nearly a cappella pieces such as “Still Life” and “A Souvenir.” They also underscore the album’s lonely, unsettled heart. The wonderfully eerie “A Small Hand, Clamped” and nightmarish “Take It on Board” resemble folk dirges from the future, offering little reassurance but plenty of haunting mood. A more challenging work than RPG, This Material Moment is distinctive, deeply felt music from an artist committed to discovering new ways of looking at — and listening to — the world. — AMG
   

Track List:
01 - Useful Analogies
02 - Compromise!
03 - Lasting, Not to Last
04 - A Painting of the Wind
05 - Still Life
06 - A Souvenir
07 - Ancient Summer
08 - Take it on Board
09 - A Small Hand, Clamped
10 - An Affirmation
11 - Vanishing Point
12 - Have You Been Changing
Media Report:
Genre: alternative folk
Origin: London, UK
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.3.0 (UTC 2013-05-26)
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