Matchess - Sonescent (Drag City) LP + digital

Upcoming on Drag City and via bandcamp. Despite that being a indie rock stalwart label wise this release is not of that genre. Most of her past work has been on experimental and cassette labels. Whitney Johnson's project Matchess is an electronic project that couples drone and ambient with vocals and spaced out percussion, similar to Grouper's output. I first heard her via Tabs Out when they played Sacracorpa. It's still one of the more engrossing albums I've heard in recent years. She and TALsounds put out a collab as Damiana that was one of my favorite records last year. 

Press release blurb: "Matchess take a giant step from psychedelic songcraft into pure psychoacoustic space, in which songs float with all the other sounds we hear in our body. The music of meditation; a flow of sounds and thoughts of sounds and the natural beating of our ears as they strain to hear more."