Album Review: Julianna Barwick - Will

Is there any singer harder than Julianna Barwick to review?

Her music is mostly built around blissfully distorted loops of her voice and typically has reviewers groping for obscure adjectives and pretentious metaphors like "rays of translucent light penetrating through morning fog". Barwick has widened her palette with more distinctively electronic sounds, with differing results; the low pulse of Nebula subtly propels the song along, while the tedious alarm noise on See, Know clashes with her understated vocals. Elsewhere, naked piano lines echo as if through an empty stone church.