Joni Void "Every Life Is A Light"
Joni Void returns to songcraft on their warmest and most welcoming record yet, where the acclaimed sampledelic Montréal producer chills out with an emotionally resonant song cycle tinged by downtempo, lo-fi, avant-pop, and trip-hop.Guests include Haco, Ytamo, Sook-Yin Lee, Pink Navel and N NAO.Montréal producer and sound collagist Joni Void returns with their warmest and most welcoming album yet, wedding their sampledelic songcraft to rubbery and percolated downtempo beats. Every Life Is A Light expands on Void’s recent stylistic turn towards more languorous and mellow lo-fi production, foreshadowed by the drifting looseness and ambient bricolage of their preceding experimental sound-art record. This transitional sensibility now shapes more defined song structures and styles, with loops are given time and space to unspool, and rhythms shot through the softer-focus lens of trip-hop and dub. Every Life Is A Light swaps the twitchy insistence of Void’s acclaimed early albums for a newfou