Allay by Katie Gately - Loom 2020

Despite being heavily informed by the loss of her mother to cancer in 2018, Katie Gately's second album is not so much about grief, as made with grief. It is layered in every atom of the record, like a fifth element tying it all together. Part self-soothing machine, part banishing ritual, Loom is Gately's most artistically refined offering. In its grim landscape amid the terrors of grieving, ailing, raging bodies and ravaging hyper anxious brain chemistry, an eerie transcendence looms large. Danijela Bočev