Red Brut
Cloaked Travels
Following her debut LP (KRAAK, 2018) and a string of tapes and 7-inches, Red Brut drops her second album, 'Cloaked Travels'. It is a joint release by the Finnish labels Ikuisuus and Lal Lal Lal. In many aspects, 'Cloaked Travels' is an amazing realisation of what Red Brut does best: molding the absurd, the amateurish, and the crude into beautiful and elegant sound pieces. These eight "songs", organised in two suites, dwell between abstract avant-garde and pop sensibility. Working with cassette tapes, Red Brut enhances the ambiguous qualities of her sounds with the warm distortion and background hiss typical of the medium. The music leaves the listener to him- or herself, happily lost in small universes that contain many layers of beauty, discomfort, and intimacy. Limited to 250 copies.