Hollie Kenniff - The Quiet Drift (2021) [FLAC]

Artist......: Hollie Kenniff
Album.......: The Quiet Drift
Label.......: Western Vinyl
Genre.......: Ambient
Catnr.......: WV225
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2023-01-30
Str.date....: 2021-07-16
Quality.....: 761 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://holliekenniff.bandcamp.com

1. Flourish 4:00
2. Quell 4:45
3. Some Day If Some Day Comes 3:52
4. Four Sides Of The Forest 5:19
5. Under The Loquat Tree (feat. Goldmund) 4:00
6. Sunset Chant 3:19
7. Still Falling Snow 3:54
8. Unfolding (feat. Goldmund) 2:57
9. A Feathered Fog 4:14
10. This Part Of You 3:53

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\ / ________ Runtime 40:13

,: Director David Lynch once said I long for a kind of quiet where :,
: I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is :
:' like fishing. If youre quiet and sitting there and you have ':
,: the right bait, youre going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas :,
: are sort of like that. You never know when theyre going to hit :
:' you. Inspired by this quote in both name and spirit, Hollie ':
,: Kenniffs The Quiet Drift is an ambient gallery of cloudlike :,
: synths, seraphic strings, echoing guitars, and other celestial :
:' textures guided to cohesion by Hollies own wordless singing. ':
,: Though the album certainly creates (and originates from) the :,
: kind of space where Lynchs proverbial fish can be caught, The :
:' Quiet Drift is a fitting title for Hollies own history, both ':
,: recent and distant. During the course of the albums creation, :,
: Hollie and her family moved cross-country from an island in :
:' Washington state, to an island in Maine before ultimately ':
,: relocating to Canada. As a child I visited Ontario year-round, :,
: she explains in her own words. She continues More than any :
:' other landscape, I think the lake, rivers, and woods there left ':
,: the most enduring impression on me. The landscape and pace of :,
: life of these places will always stay with me. :
:' ':
,: But the reverberant spaces Hollie crafts need no physical :,
: headquarters. Instead of conjuring views of nature at the ground :
:' level, her sound more readily evokes a top-down perspective, ':
,: with the distinct features of the land shrinking underfoot as :,
: the listener becomes untethered from geography altogether. The :
:' Quiet Drift belongs more to the liminal spaces between life and ':
,: afterlife, memory and fantasy, landscape and dreamscape, than :,
: any mappable locale. Flourish commences The Quiet Drift with :
:' ivy-like tendrils of voice and string that spiral around one ':
,: another to become a single, exquisite organism. "Under the :,
: Loquat Tree" and "Unfolding" teem with softly plucked electric :
:' guitar, brushing ambient noise, and gently punctuating piano ':
,: keys lent by Hollies husband, labelmate, and Mint Julep musical :,
: partner Keith Kenniff aka Goldmund. Still Falling Snow drifts :
:' on a bed of motorik percussion that rises up from the ':
,: floorboards until the surrounding elements-- dense harmonic :,
: vocal storms, synth basses, and multiple blended textures-- are :
:' consumed more and more within every consecutive drum pulse. ':
,: Dreaming Pale Dreams is a long crescendo that starts gently :,
: and ignites into a ribbon of radiant distortion. The Quiet Drift :
:' departs with "This Part of You," a full-spectrum epilogue that ':
,: spores ever outward like the mist beneath a waterfall. Curtains :,
: of glassy synth ripple and rise only to suddenly break and :
:' reveal Hollie's voice, the central texture of the album, as it ':
,: rings solely into the abyss. Despite plenty of memorable moments :,
: and textures, no one song is meant to be the center of :
:' attention, and neither is any single element of the songs ':
,: themselves. There is plenty of dynamic and songcraft on The :,
: Quiet Drift, but rather than each moment claiming distinction, :
:' Hollie brings movement to every detail at once, like a school ':
,: of will-o'-the-wisps being guided down a hill, through a valley, :,
: and back up the other side. :
:' ':
,: Describing her formative years, Hollie says As a dual :,
: US/Canadian citizen who spent my childhood in a rural town-- one :
:' that I havent returned to in many years-- I have a sense of ':
,: not entirely belonging anywhere. When I was a teenager my close :,
: friends were male musicians, so I was also an outsider to the :
:' degree that they were wild and anarchic in a way that I wasnt. ':
,: I was a quiet book reader and avid music listener who enjoyed :,
: being around a creative group. I was also a radio DJ for :
:' alternative and punk music throughout high school. In this ':
,: light, The Quiet Drift attests that creativity is placeless, and :,
: calls into question the stereotype of artists as scene-centric :
:' city dwellers. Having come of age in the absence of ':
,: metropolitan sensory overload, Hollie learned to spot the muse :,
: in nature, and within herself, instead of the echo chamber of a :
:' frenzied peer group. On The Quiet Drift Hollie Kenniff wholly ':
,: escapes from such pop-culture feedback loops into transcendent, :,
: shimmering realms, and she brings the listener along with her. :
:' In this age in which we have all been called to reevaluate our ':
,: relationship to indoor spaces, and seek refuge in the great :,
: outdoors, The Quiet Drift provides an apt soundtrack for such :
:' rebalancing. ':