magoski
Silent
Still
Almost
But Not
Close or
Anywhere
Near
the Bull's
Eye
sees the red cape
the Bulls Eye sees the Red
that is blood
into the forest
we
run
into the forest we
hide
and seek
we double down
we count past three and still wish
upon
the farthest away from
things.
It can't be easy.
Can't ever be Easy
Can't Say.
No Mind
I can Imagine it All
Pretty Clear
Silence fills the Room like
Water in a Pond
Soft
Muddy
Sharp
Downbeat, dreamy charm by Greco-Canadian debutee Any, coming outta nowhere with a quietly compelling blend of harps and ohrwurm hooks including co-production and chops by Klein/Lolina spar LA Timpa.
Listening to Breton music made on the Celtic harp from artists like Kristen Noguès and Alan Stivell, Any sketched out song outlines that were then tweaked by Lagos-born, Toronto-raised journeyman LA Timpa, who flew out to Crete last summer to put his idiosyncratic stamp on the record. Like the dusty songs on Astrid Sonne's 'Great Doubt, ‘MEGA MERCY' sounds as if its drum line was duped on dictaphone from an old beat tape, then spliced with field recordings and vocals.
Half sung, half spoken, she murmurs around the beat, not exactly over it, adding circuitous, boss-tuned harp twangs when necessary. It's music that's spartan rather than lo-fi; a sort of bare-bones reaction to electroacoustic experimentation and outsider folk. It makes perfect sense that an artist as thematically on-point as LA Timpa is involved - Any's instrumental vamps are roughly pasted around pinprick boom-bap snaps and crunchy foley denouements, eventually cooled into contemplative Nala Sinephro-esque meditations.
Sections bring to mind Tirzah's most psychedelic early excursions, with dry asides set against a slurping, off-axis beatbox loop and distant, barely-audible synths. The record is tied up on 'WEATHER LIKE TIDE', an instrumental callback to the opener, book-ending the album with a melancholy, humid kinda ambient folk, purposefully melting the timeline.
(Boomkat)
credits
released June 12, 2025
Harp, synth, vocals, lyrics, production by Any.
Additional instrumentation & production by LA Timpa.
Mixed & mastered by LA Timpa. Cut by Rashad Becker.
A3. All I Said Was Where co-produced by richard.
Photography by Devon Corman & Stéphanie Alèxe Hébert.
Art & design by Will Boyd.
“Do you still dream in water?” she asks.
He nods—“only when it rains inside.”
Their words drift, slow like signal loss,, soft clicks between heartbeats.
A drone hums overhead,
its shadow stroking their faces.
“Are we free now?” she whispers.
He laughs, small, broken. “We’re just less afraid.”
They share one headphone,
listening to the city’s pulse—
loops of breath,
echoes of what could’ve been
“Hold me,” she says.
“I am,” he answers,
“in the static.” magoski
Fall
Down
Down
Into
Onto
Cold
Shores
Forever you are
chained to that
Cold Rocky Shore
Winds
Carry
Marrow
Pleasure
Marrow Pain
There is no
cell to hold you
have the key
cold
windy
sea
magoski
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