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RACHIKA NAYAR OUR WRETCHED FATE (FEAT. MARIA BC)
Brooklyn-based composer and producer Rachika Nayar preps for the release of her sophomore album Our Wretched Fantasy with new single 'Our Wretched Fate' featuring Maria BC. On the new single Nayar uses warped guitar sounds, layers of synths and the ethereal vocals of Maria BC (who earlier this year released their beautiful record Hyaline), to create euphoric cinematic landscapes that feel simultaneously trancey and grand and post-rock while retaining an intimacy and closeness. Nayar speaks of the drama and the emotional intensity that courses through the record: “I both love and feel so wary of melodrama, because its entire premise is to be uncritical. Taking your most massive emotions at face-value feels so fraught when they partly originate with structures you can’t control, with structures you maybe even feel at war with.” -Toby Evans-Jesra
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