I've been listening to it for days, even continuously for hours. I put it on before going to sleep and let it play in a loop all night because I love to wrap myself in this liquid ocean of notes and be cradled by this beautiful voice. Today's #buzz feature album is from last year and one of the most beautiful releases of 2017, thank you Mr @ALFAMA. I love Thrill Jockey Records anyway.

Colleen - A Flame My Love, A Frequency (Thrill Jockey Records, October 20, 2017)

An album of stunning beauty. The French artist and composer Colleen (real name: Cecile Schott) literally astonishes with the release of her latest album titled "A Flame My Love, A Frequency," which came out last October on Thrill Jockey. The album is a concept album she began working on just a few weeks after the events of November 13, 2015. Just 4 hours before, Cecile had been wandering around Paris, admiring the beauty and serenity of those places that would soon become sites of total terror and death. The album addresses this theme of how beauty and vitality go hand in hand with feelings of fear and horror. "A Flame My Love, A Frequency" is an album of electronic pop and minimal compositions, recorded using traditional instrumentation mixed with more modern techniques, including loops and overdubs. The creation of experimental electronic compositions and the crafting of sensitive soundscapes with an ethereal fragility are often accompanied by evocative vocal performances ("Separating," "Winter Dawn," "Summer Night (Bat Song)," "The Stars Vs Creatures," "A Flame My Love, A Frequency"). We might think of James Blake, Imogen Heap, even some songs by Radiohead, but none of these reach the same emotional power and especially the same brilliance of the sounds found on this album. An album that, more than aiming to be a memorial, expresses a certain suffering and darkness, yet also hints at a faint glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.

Colleen - Winter dawn (Official Music Video)