DEVIN SHAFFER - Patience LP Alternative

DEVIN SHAFFER - Patience LP AlternativeI keep thinking about this idea that once you think youre on the path, youve lost the path, says New York musician Devin Shaffer, explaining the ethos behind Patience, her first studio album. There is no certainty, there is no knowing. Its all about surrender. Written between 2021 and 2023 and Shaffers move from Chicago to New York City, Patience mirrors lifes highs and lows on the search for spiritual meaning, purpose, and connection. For the first

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or a place or time that seems to lack life

electronic incantations in crypt and blob choirs (Mil Pluton

This gorgeous album design includes a foldout poster with collaged lyrics

and just a taste of what's to come

rather than in the U

not always explicitly in sound

Alexander Hacke

monochrome drones exploding into multicolour streams

one that rises from a whisper to a roar only to subside as quickly as it arrived

a careless driver called Mike

manufactured to classical standards