Autumna - The Stasi Café
Released: March 19 The Stasi Cafe is a bit of a confusing album for me. Sonically, it is quite beautiful with its lush and airy textures and stunning use of vocal samples and field recordings. Thematically, I can’t quite figure out what is going on here, especially considering the name of the album. Regardless, the vignette-like quality of each track pulled me in rather unexpectedly as the large and echo-y spaces present left me wondering. It really feels like the whole album takes place within a very think mist - one that can barely be seen through except to see only the roughest of outlines, some of which induce feelings of dread while others bring about a sense of anemoia or a vague memory of something you think you experienced but can’t be sure. The first track is oddly and nefariously named “Space heaters Bathing With Bastards,” but despite the name, it feels oddly uneventful. Rather it feels simply idk the introduction to the metaphorical mist that the rest of t...
