Dais Records – DAIS119
SRSQ (pronounced seer-skew) is the solo project of Kennedy
Ashlyn (vocalist/keyboardist of Them Are Us Too). Creative voids
aren’t filled, but rather holes left that push the edges of the present
into new realms of consciousness. SRSQ’s pulse began after the death
of Kennedy’s closest friend and TAUT collaborator Cash Askew, a
casualty in the sudden and tragic Oakland Ghost Ship Fire of
2016. Driven by loss, SRSQ became the vehicle for Kennedy’s
transformative process, exploring nuance, nostalgia, reflection, and
reconciliation, manifesting in the aural landscape of Unreality.
As a debut, Unreality is entrance into a new form of storytelling,
traversing the present while pulling from a deep swath of experience,
immersion, and sound. Like the impulse it pulls from, each song evokes
the complex duality of meditation—where simple intersects with infinite.
Ambient synthesizers that approach harshness, relentless
arpeggiations act together with Kennedy’s vocals as a lush weapon,
weaving cloudlike fables over orchestration that’s familiar and foreign.
Trance-like at times, yet always rooted in cadence and structure, the
synesthesia of sound and feeling takes cues from the delicate miasma of
Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, or Dead Can Dance, using their
example as the ground floor for building a new temple of frequency.
Kennedy proves an adept architect of rhythm, using sequenced electronics
as a deep backbeat that allows the harrowing beauty of her vocals to
lead the journey.
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