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Matryoshka - Blasé Saint (sferic) [Electronic Music]

  • Writer: The Slow Music Movement
    The Slow Music Movement
  • Apr 18
  • 1 min read

*** This blog post first appeared in TSMM's March 22nd Newsletter, where you can get all the tips (and more) first ***


The cover for Seattle producer, Matryoshka's Blasé Saint album, showing a close-up of an eye reflecting city skyline lights. The scene is moody, with blurred reflections and soft, warm colors. Tiny text reads "Imogen Rae Shell."

Don’t be fooled, Matryoshka is not Russian, but double agent Jaqueline Lawson from Seattle - just don’t tell the GRU. She’s been floating around underground electronica’s shadowy and credible labels for a while, finally seeing fit to release her debut album, and I’m happy to report that it’s the perfect electronic music soundtrack for our flickering, small-screen lit and shaped, tech overlorded, autocratic creep and doom-scrolling angst-ridden, twilight zone.


A blurry image of Seattle based electronic music producer Jaqueline Lawson aka Matryoshka with long hair, wearing a dark top. Soft lighting creates a dreamy, indistinct atmosphere. Neutral background.

The ghost of Burial’s early productions looms large over the recording, but there’s not too much music that doesn’t stand on someone’s shoulders, so that’s alright with me, although I’m sure her urban sonic sensibility will probably appeal more to rat-racing big-city dwellers, especially the nocturnally inclined.


So if that’s you, try hitting play whilst driving home along empty roads after a club - the bass and beats will be a welcome, relaxed echo of what you just heard. Or possibly on your headphones during an aimless day off wandering around new parts of the city with time to marvel at, rather than instinctively block out the urban intensity, and perhaps even enough headspace to comprehend the millions of untold, real-time stories swirling and perpetually updating around you; Lawson’s low-frequency throb and hypnotic ambient gloom will make all sorts of sense.







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