River Gaze is a soundtrack for a common beloved experience - sitting by the Ohio River and staring into its presence, its movements, mysteriousness, and majesty. Through the layering of environmental sounds and music, this soundtrack is a poetic expression, both narrative and admiring of this natural body. Accessed through a QR code posted on on-site signage and best experienced with headphones, this immersive piece will be a contemplative experience for the listener, enhancing their visit and relationship to the river.

River Gaze

Originally released as a limited edition split tape with Utah-based Sympathy Pain on Whited Sepulchre Records.

Press:

"Similar to labelmate Midwife’s Like Author, Like Daughter, ‘To Behold You’ is a lush, moody piece to soundtrack careful walks through your neighbourhood after a blizzard. The front half of the track is instrumental, dominated by reverberating guitars and slow, silky melodies. When Kelly’s multi-layered vocals enter, it’s like hearing ghosts being exorcised from other ghosts, like a matryoshka doll. Listen to this track and feel a sort of windswept wonderment with every note." - The 405

"That sense of flowing nature is palpable in Kelly’s four gorgeous new tracks, which are gradual and patient but also constantly in motion. Her thick, echoing guitar wraps around her meditative voice like grass spreading across the roots of trees." - Marc Masters, Hi Bias

"Avoiding the often unavoidable fragmentation often associated with split records, the songs here flow into each other with ease, transitioning organically and balancing each others sonic and emotional spaces while also providing a strong sense of pacing and direction throughout, the aural equivalent to a long walk in the woods at night; the sights, sounds, and smells constantly changing alongside the thoughts and emotional responses that provide them context." - Stone in Focus

"Her new solo EP — a split cassette with Utah Drone outfit Sympathy Pain — takes this ethos to its aesthetic extremes. Oceanic pulses of guitar, keyboard and discarnate vowel sounds loop into a tranquil nothingness, sometimes slightly chopped like a lo-fi Hip Hop beat sans drums." - CityBeat

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