Allegra Krieger has been busy; her fifth album, “Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine” arrived just over a year after last year’s great “I Keep My Feet On The Fragile Plane”, and less than a year after its collection of b-sides. It’s also a clear step forward from “Fragile Plane“, incorporating a wider range of sounds and collaborators into her sombre, ’70s-folk-inspired sound, from the fully fleshed out indie rock of “Never Arriving” to “How Do You Sleep”, which is scorched with noisy guitar. Krieger’s juxtapositions of NYC as a place where beauty and tragedy live side by side are sharp as ever — she calls the city “my favourite place in the whole wide world” on “Into Eternity,” but it’s also where she escaped a fire in her Chinatown apartment building that killed four of her neighbours last summer, inspiring “One or the Other.” Her incisive observations have the same quiet staying power of her melodies, and both stick around long after you’ve first heard them.
Allegra Krieger (vox, guitar, piano) Kevin Copeland (bass), Jacob Matheus (guitar), Will Alexander (drums)
released September 13th, 2024
All songs written by Allegra Krieger and recorded at Figure 8 Recording in Brooklyn, New York. November 2023
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