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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Berlin-based Lyra Pramuk features lyrics by poet Nadia Marcus and improvisations by Sonar Quartett.
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- Record Label: 7K! Records
- Genre(s): Electronic, Experimental
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Jun 17, 2025Hymnal is a planet of sound, teeming with life, that seems even more habitable than Fountain—a bountiful ecosystem experiencing a permanent May and June.
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The WireJun 17, 2025The oozing synths of “Umbra” slide deliciously in and out of phase to an ethereal keening. .... Elsewhere, she hacks and revolves samples into chittering humus – an overripe garden of imagination, bustling with enthusiasm, circuitry and life. [Jun 2025, p.64]
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MojoJun 17, 2025Hymnal flows like diaphanous silk, the Berlin-based artist's otherworldly vocals stitching a sensuous golden thread throughout. [Aug 2025, p.85]
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Jun 17, 2025Her deliberate, fully present process resulted in the sort of opulent, heady music that you’d actually expect mushrooms to make. From the very first notes of opener ‘Rewild’, the music betrays an intoxicatingly organic aura.
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UncutJun 20, 2025Pramuk takes listeners on a rich inner-space odyssey. [Aug 2025, p.37]
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Jun 17, 2025Complicated and dense, Hymnal demands deep listening – no bad thing – but its repetitive, jerking movements and myriad layers often become samey and numbing, with Pramuk’s fascinating ideas buried in the murk.