#maria bc

[audiojunkyard]

#maria bc #taper #I saw the tv glow #soundtrack #2024 #audio #music

[dustedmagazine]

Maria BC — Spike Field (Sacred Bones)

A spike field is an attempt to communicate across time and language: an assemblage of granite “thorns” laid out across a nuclear waste site to denote its uninhabitability. Such a vivid image of desolation also speaks to our attempts to protect future generations from the mistakes of the past. How do we move forward when our predecessors have caused such devastation? It’s a fittingly bleak image and basis for reflection prior to hearing Maria BC’s new album, their first for New York label Sacred Bones.

Over the course of Spike Field’s 50 minutes, the songs’ prevalent mood can prove hypnotic if you’re receptive to its atmosphere. MBC is certainly adept at conjuring and sustaining a melancholy, nocturnal scene. The insistently strummed or plucked acoustic guitar figures, close mic’d and drenched in reverb, suggest the music may be building towards a climax, but the songs rarely offer the cathartic release of a crescendo, more often than not shimmering and fading into a shadowy afterglow. The main exception is the album’s potent opening one-two of “Amber” and “Watcher.” On the former, glitchy and distorted swells dapple the song’s central guitar arpeggios, while the latter features the album’s most exultant moment, as ascending harmonized voices strive towards transcendence from the gloom.

The discordance of the guitars on “Tied” suggests the atmospherics of Sonic Youth at their most eerie and subdued, while the fragments of lyrics that rise up out of the murk, such as “with blistered hands,” present images that are left to hang uncomfortably. This approach is most memorable on “Amber,” as the line “Your scent is on me now” is repeated, yet it’s unclear if MBC is luxuriating in or repelled by the prospect. “Haruspex” introduces some more variety to the arrangements with its prominent shuffling drums, while the instrumental title track traces out its desolate theme on wavering piano.

Overall, Spike Field’s closest recent cousin is probably last year’s Skullcrusher album, Quiet the Room. While Helen Ballentine’s debut felt intimate and haunted, Maria BC conjures a more dread-filled atmosphere, in which moments of beauty are barely able to banish the persistent shadows.

Tim Clarke

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[iamthecrime]

#maria bc #still #spike field #music

[imathers]

2023 Loosies: Maria BC — "Mercury"

You may have noticed that almost all of the songs on this list have music videos. This is one of I think two that don't (and we'll get to the other next week). Some of the songs here are ones where I never listened to or just didn't get into the albums they're from (and some aren't from albums); this is the rarer case, more like 100 gecs, where I do love this album but one track stood out so much that when the record missed my Top 20 list I knew I'd include the song here.

I'm not sure offhand of Spike Field has any "singles," although there are videos for two other tracks noted on Bandcamp. But the... chorus? refrain? of "Mercury" just absolutely knocked me out on first listen. I really do enjoy the whole record, but on more of a vibes level where I don't think I could currently pick any of the other songs out of a lineup. But it feels like I am always going to be able to sing that part of "Mercury" to myself. I haven't even tried to look up what they're singing; I just know how it feels to me. The precise admixture of desolation, resilience, wisdom, sorrow, and grace is ineffable.

#2023 review #music #maria bc

[vyva-melinkolya]

bleed in your eyes and name every nameless need

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[grrlmusic]

Maria BC - Lacuna (Official Music Video)

#youtube #music #Maria BC #Lacuna #Spike Field

[voskhozhdeniye]

#Music #Rachika Nayar #maria bc #....

[madc0w]

Listen/purchase: Where it lives by maria bc

#music #ambient #experimental #maria bc #where it lives

[therarefied]

Maria BC's "Watcher"

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[cbcruk]

Maria BC - Lacuna

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[trying---to---remember]

album of the year time finally

#maria bc #spike field #music #favorite #Bandcamp

[musicdiaries]

Maria BC - Amber

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[abductionradiation]

Brooklyn, NY -- This week, Issei Herr shares new single “Aveu (The Beginning Is a Farewell) feat. Maria BC” from her upcoming album Distant Intervals. The track spans nearly 5 minutes long and you’ll find yourself lost in the lush instrumental layers. From the emotional swells of the cello to the heavenly vocal notes, “Aveu (The Beginning Is a Farewell) feat. Maria BC” captures an emotional vulnerability that can feel simultaneously daunting and lifechanging. Herr really immerses listeners in her world of sound - capturing us with just the most sensational swirls of sound and feelings. 

Distant Intervals by Issei Herr

Tour dates: 4/12 New York, NY - Trans Pecos 4/27 Boston, MA - The Lilypad 5/15 Los Angeles, CA - 2220 Arts 5/20 Los Angeles, CA - Floating 6/7 Tokyo, Japan - Forestlimit

Connect with Issei Herr:

Official Site | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

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[iamthecrime]

#maria bc #mercury #spike field #music

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“Heaven Come Crashing” by Rachika Nayar ft. maria BC

MG:

There are plenty of reference points for the swirling, cathartic, and, indeed, ethereal “Heaven Come Crashing.” It’s got the same blank nonsense coupled with gorgeous post-rock guitar as Mogwai have perfected and it’s also got the same wall of sound synth crescendos as M83 at their most emotional. But a huge part of what makes “Heaven Come Crashing” so euphoric and moving is that familiarity. At least for me, it evokes all these huge, larger than life experiences, ones I already soundtracked with fractal guitars synced to my own heaving sobs. Love, death, the sort of longing that rips your guts out -- I need big music to make sense of feelings that can’t be contained inside me, to trace the threads of suffering and connection that weave us all together in any given moment. If Belinda Carlisle insisted heaven is what we make of our life, Rachika Nayar counters that heaven can open up and shower us with bliss even at our lowest.

DV:

Unfortunately, although “Heaven Come Crashing” is also one of the most striking songs I heard this year, I am compelled to add to the reference points: the chiming synths evoke ”Let Down” (Radiohead’s best song), an explosion of emotion and drama and twinkles, that’s echoed in Rachika Nayar and maria BC’s work here - even as “Heaven Come Crashing” eschews pop structure in favor of a more linear progression. The shared goal is to overwhelm us with feeling, with an ebb and flow that also builds until it sweeps over our heads like a wave, until we lose our sense of self and surrender to a journey under the sea. Dropping IDM beats more than two minutes into a five-minute song is bold, but letting them fade with over a minute to go might be bolder still. And yet that’s where the climax lies in wait: beyond the excess, in the absence. Where we are and where we can’t yet go.

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[sharpened--edges]

Rachika Nayar ft. Maria BC, "Heaven Come Crashing" (2022)

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