Julianna Barwick: Florine
Label: self-released
Brooklyn’s own Julianna Barwick is someone you’ll want to get to know if you favor dreamy ambience of Brian Eno and even Cocteau Twins derivation. The talented Barwick has an uncommon angle though: the EP Florine, like her self-released debut, Sanguine, is composed almost exclusively from her vocals, looped and treated and layered like…like…honey-glazed baklava. Okay — that was corny, sorry. But if Barwick’s methods are becoming more loosely familiar in this age of home computers and feckless, interminable “experimentation,” her vision is unique and worthy, and her (presumedly) wordless vocalizations, evoking angels on high and a life free of peril or fear, would thrill someone like J.S. Bach. You say I’m just talking; I say you haven’t heard Florine, bub. (M.L. Thrope)
