Heathen Disco Music Reviews #0138 (October 24, 2025)

Honestly a little too cooked to weigh in on the preamble. Nothing but rejections out there does a lot to make someone feel like a big nothing. Light a candle for your boi.

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WEDNESDAY KNUDSEN Atrium 2xLP (Feeding Tube)

I mostly remember Wednesday Knudsen from stunning fronts of groups like Pigeons, Stella Kola and Weeping Bong Band, and last checked in on an idyllic New Agey collab with Mountain Mover Kryssi Battalene. There’s a track on there entitled “Calm Club Charter” that goes a way to explaining the gentle, meditative wonders of what unfolds on her latest, a key explained and shared, self-preservation hours not of escapes to a closed room and the limits of personal space, but instead the openness of creation within the natural world. I wouldn’t go as far as to put Atrium into any NA/wellness camp, because its environment – in and around the Taconic mountains of New York state – mark these four sides as a portal into the growing beauty of woods, trees, landscapes, and the commitments one must make to commune there and respect the Earth for what comes out of it. Committed entirely by herself in recording environments over two years, Knudsen plays winds (flute and alto sax), guitar, autoharp, bass, piano and sings a bit, and the results are thematic but stretch to vistas dictated by the length of human breath and the duration of specific movements. It drones but is not drone, as the compositions shift and repeat in long, deliberate strokes, but with little to no tension, a genuine stillness of being that could help anyone who listens to settle down. It’s a rare find, a keeper in a world where relaxation is constantly forgotten.

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