R Elizabeth, Every and All We Voyage On

Album of the Day, Bandcamp

Words Jordan Reyes

“Every And All We Voyage On connects two disparate traditions—on one side, there’s the experimental tape music tradition pioneered by the GRM and San Francisco Tape Music Center; on the other, the synth-pop of Paul McCartney’s II or Casino Shanghai. Aside from the first and last tracks, all the sounds on R. Elizabeth’s new album are made with a Casiotone MT-65, a reel-to-reel machine, and vocals—an odd, effective approach orchestration that manages to both disorient the listener and entice with pleasing melodic motifs. Every And All We Voyage On is fundamentally a pop record, and yet composer Rachael Finney eschews tradition by adding in atmospheric tape manipulation….”