Alias Records
1998
Faith In Space
About This Album
As always with Lida Husik, the title of this album seems accompanied by a slight tongue in cheek wink to her electronic-obsessed peers, but it also happens to be entirely appropriate. The main difference between Faith in Space and many of the artists who make their music on machines is three-fold: one, Husik plays various instruments on each song; two, they are actual songs, with structure, melody, and all the attendant organizational trappings; and, three, they sound entirely organic. Husik has triangulated the spaciest elements from Fly Stereophonic, amplified them, added some additional electronic elements and stretched them into songs that approach or exceed five minutes, all without losing her natural frothy vitality. The album moves from the funky "Dissolve" to the sputtering drum'n'bass of "Blood and Water" without losing either its focus or its inherent coziness, although the music does seem a bit more cold, a bit more chilly than her previous effort. Husik, for the most part, sheds any hint of cutesiness from her musical persona, replacing it with a cloudy detachment that, nevertheless, is inviting and avoids techno-insularity. Her somnolent vocals instead tuck under the covers of the music like a warm, drowsy body in a chill night.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,9 and 10)

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