Soli City builds Poetics of a New Estate like brutalist architecture with bad dreams

Soli City’s Poetics of a New Estate sounds like a record that has read too many architecture journals and then decided to haunt a luxury apartment block. Reviewed on 15 June, the album comes from Harald Bjørn’s Copenhagen experimental world and pairs chamber ensemble writing, spoken-word interludes, ambient passages and sudden abrasive interruptions. The result is not background music for design-conscious calm. It is more like curated discomfort: beautiful textures interrupted by synthetic ugliness, refined arrangements that refuse to stay tasteful for too long, and a wider sense that modern life is constantly buzzing too close to the ear. That tension gives the album its character. Poetics of a New Estate may sometimes feel crowded, but that may also be the point. It is music about overload, architecture and the strange luxury of being unsettled in a very well-designed room.

Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/soli-city-poetics-of-a-new-estate/