🔗 Share this article The Artist Dania: Her Album Listless – Intimate Underground Music Shaped by Hospital Late-Night Work In addition to crafting evocative digital pieces, this Baghdad-born, Spain-based artist Dania also works overnight duties as an emergency physician. These nocturnal shifts serve as the inspiration behind her new album Listless: each of the seven tracks were written and produced after midnight, and the cover showcases the slender flower of the Trichosanthes cucumerina, a plant that flowers exclusively at night. But, you won't find much of the turmoil of her late-night schedule in this music: rather, the record exudes a serene peacefulness that is sometimes blissful, sometimes eerie. See image in fullscreen Dania: Listless Converging somewhere amid downtempo, shoegaze and atmospheric, with a touch of catchy melodies, the textured songs glide dreamily, driven by washes of synthesizers and, for the first time, percussion. A new addition to the artist's typical arrangement, they add a soft downtempo rhythm to several of the tracks. Its meandering, murky beat in Personal Assistant evokes the late-90s groups one group and another, while the song Car Crash Premonition is the nearest the album come to intense. Written after an unnerving cab ride to her workspace late one evening, it is simultaneously brooding and woozy, ideal for a movie scene. Other tracks, such as one titled I Know That and Write My Name, are closer in style of the artist's previous output: stripped back and formless. The closing track, named A Hunger, possesses a underwater feel, with gurgling and beeping electronics that resemble medical monitors, interwoven with altered answerphone-style vocals. The artist's gentle, whispering voice is featured across almost the entirety of the record. Its lyrics are almost imperceptible as her vocals are floating, repeated, layered, at points almost absent at all. Growing up in a home where vocal expression was frowned upon, she has stated it’s something she’s consistently considered personal. Yet this is additionally an brilliant decision, augmenting the surreal atmosphere on the gorgeous, intimate record. New Releases This Month Bitchin Bajas draw 4 tracks out to nearly forty minutes on their album Inland See. Throughout those lengthy compositions (including an grand 18-minute final track), the Windy City group deliver another exemplary work in lush, wandering minimalism, with chugging loops and bubbly improvisational touches. Over the past ten years, Another Project (the label of Bristol producer Batu) has been a cornerstone for bass-heavy experimental dance music. TD10 marks that milestone with twenty-three chunky, unconventional club cuts for any hour of the evening, including input from renowned artists such as re:ni, Skee Mask, Pearson Sound and Batu personally. Inspired in part by personal encounters of agoraphobia and fear of enclosed spaces, Fobia (by Other People), the new work by Argentinian sound artist Aylu, is suitably personal, sometimes stiflingly so. Close-contact recordings of strained inhales, swallows and hums expand into curious but frequently beautiful creations.