Naima Bok’s debut is a real gem – the kind of album that sneaks you in, and one I can’t stop coming back to for some reason. giant palm It makes me feel like I’m floating on a cloud. It is abnormally quiet. It is subtle, enveloping, and moves in unhurried erosive waves. It’s not the kind of music one would expect from a former member of Goat Girl – the anxious, political, distinctive punk group Bock spent six years in – but perhaps the kind of music one needs after saying all it ought to be. He said. Bock began working on her own music as a way to escape the kind of analytical music that a punk band required. Songs summon the absence of thought: a way to slip in and out.
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