Album Review: Liminal Soul by Kedr Livanskiy

Fun is a central tenet of Yana Kedrina's music. Liminal Soul, the Moscow-based producer and vocalist's third album as Kedr Livanskiy, is defined by a wide-eyed, magnanimous playfulness, an openness to quirk that doesn't inhibit the seriousness of her message. Listen to the way the chirp of birdsong seems to jumpstart a clattering footwork beat on "Celestial Ether," or the way that, seconds after the album's final synth aria seems to have drawn to a close on "Storm Dancer," it returns for one more bar, a tiny, winking encore.

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