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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Los Angeles-based experimental artist Claire Rousay features a guest appearance by M. Sage.
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- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Electronic, Experimental, Avant-Garde, Experimental Ambient, Experimental Electronic
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Nov 13, 2025A Little Death showcases Rousay’s ability to convey complex feelings of nostalgia, bringing to mind the themes of films such as Aftersun or Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind in their wistful approach to the portrayal of memories.
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Oct 29, 2025A record that speaks to notions of presence and absence, and the impermanence that underpins all things.
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Oct 29, 2025Like any of rousay's other releases, a little death is a homemade portrait, incorporating sounds from her life and her friends into earnest, personal work.
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Nov 5, 2025Yes, there are pangs of melancholy and sadness, but these are next to touching motifs and beguiling melodies. For best results, listen on headphones in a darkened room when everyone else is asleep. You’ll get a genuine thrill.
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UncutOct 29, 2025There's no cathartic yelling, but feelings are certainly to the fore in eight tracks that features violin, clarinet, lap steel and piano, with a guest spot (on "Just") from ambient psychedelicist M Sage. [Dec 2025, p.36]
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The WireNov 14, 2025Throughout, strings carry forward brief, carefully composed interludes, dipping into sound fields that recall early 2000s post-rock; pensive percussion and melodic guitars riffing in and out of focus. The compositions are painterly and precise, punctuated by chimes and deep piano tones. [Dec 2025, p.56]
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Nov 12, 2025Years in the making, a little death is rousay’s most polished and straightforward work, one that seeks to take her from collagist to capital-C Composer.