Laura Misch makes Lithic feel like music carved from stone, breath and weather

Laura Misch’s Lithic arrives on 5 June with a title that tells you where the record wants to live: close to the earth, close to texture and close to time. Misch has always worked at the intersection of saxophone, voice, electronics and field-recorded atmosphere, but this second album feels especially grounded. The songs move with patience, letting rhythms, breath, processed vocals and organic details behave less like decorations and more like living materials. What makes Lithic compelling is that it does not simply use nature as an aesthetic. It seems to ask how sound can reconnect the body to caves, stone, air, water and memory. There is still a pulse here, and sometimes a danceable one, but the record’s deeper pull is meditative. It is music for listeners who like ambience when it has human warmth and art-pop when it remembers the planet under its feet.

Source: https://lauramisch.bandcamp.com/album/lithic