The difficult-to-Google electronic folk band @ have not let search engine optimization stop their inexorable rise through the indie music world. In October, the duo of Victoria Rose and Stone Filipczak will follow up their 2021 debut Mind Palace Music and 2024’s Are You There, God? It’s Me, @ EP with Autosmile, their first album for the storied 4AD label.
The title track is out today along with a video by Sophia Feuer and Tyler Macri. “Autosmile” shows how compelling @ can be even when the electronic elements are played way down. It’s a lengthy, minimal ballad that lets Rose and Filipczak’s vocal melodies and acoustic guitar work mostly speak for themselves. I expect to be repeating the chorus to myself all day: “I don’t know how I belong to you but I do somehow/ I don’t know how I came to stand up to you but I have no doubt.”
Watch the “Autosmile” video below.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Bird”
02 “Love In The Dark”
03 “I Know You Are (But What Am I Thinking)”
04 “Earthly Love”
05 “Your Dog”
06 “Untitled”
07 “I’m Not In Pain”
08 “Punish My Mind”
09 “Judgement Farmer”
10 “Autosmile”
11 “Amity”
Autosmile is out 10/16 on 4AD. Pre-order it here.
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