montage, the latest effort from Philadelphia-based experimental artist kay echo (f.k.a. floated,) is an exercise in unspooling and rewinding one’s own complicated existentialism against the concept of “The Big Crunch,” a hypothetical universal scenario in which the fate of the entire universe is to collapse unto itself into “singularity,” turning everything into one and nothing at the same time. Whether the thought causes you dread or a peaceful release, kay echo sets to sound these divisive feelings in a deconstructed loop assembled from guitar – be it eviscerated, melancholically emo, or awash in static – and electronic parts that mediate a space between bliss and a droning void. What is revealed within her own single-take loop broken down in particle and reassembled into one incomparable, solitary shape is a pillage of scattered matter and shape-shifting once on their own separate paths, now floating in the air collectively with whatever happens ascribed as a perfect ellipses to the unknown.

Highlights: “i saw you left the door standing”, “it doesn’t feel like a friday”, “andeverandeveramen”

kay echo’s montage is available now.

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