Released: 2019
Label: Shelter Press
Genre: Contemporary
Though routinely gorgeous, her work is rarely relaxing, rarely comfortable. Atkinson actively situates her compositions in the intimate, unruly liminal space between comfort and discomfort, quiet and disquiet. This remains true of her new record, the beguiling The Flower And The Vessel, a work made not “while” pregnant, she asserts, but with pregnancy. A work made in part, she says, to reassert her connection to the world.
Atkinson’s stated need to reaffirm that connection is surprising, given how rooted in the environment – however surreally – her prolific body of work tends to be. While I suppose The Flower And The Vessel is the “proper” follow up to her magical 2017 LP Hand In Hand, last year she released an album-length cassette EP, Coyotes, on Atlanta’s Geographic North; a collaborative LP with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Limpid As The Solitudes, on her own Shelter Press; and the Félicia & Christina collaborative cassette EP with Christina Vantzou on Commend Here. Crucially, despite this slew of releases, the sheer level of quality has yet to flag. The Quietus
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