Album Review: The Flower and the Vessel by Félicia Atkinson

On Félicia Atkinson's 2017 solo album Hand to Hand, she said, "I wanted to make sounds like cacti, with water and secrets inside." She succeeded: Pairing almost unnervingly intimate whispers with heavily abstracted synthetic tones, the album guarded a vivid interior life beneath its prickly exterior. But as Atkinson began recording the music that would become The Flower and the Vessel, her perception of the relationship between inner and outer realms began to shift. She was pregnant at the time, and she found herself feeling estranged twice over, caught between her surroundings and the new life growing inside her.

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