Carmen Villain – Infinite Avenue – New Vinyl LP Record 2017 Smalltown Supersound – Electronic / Ambient / Folk (FFO: Jenny Hval, Julia Holter) Secretly Canadian

Street Date: 9/8/17

With ‘Infinite Avenue,’ Carmen Villain’s songwriting and production skills have taken a major leap forward, and on the final, ethereal “Planetarium” her voice shoots into the stratosphere, riding the comet tail of a Korg bass drone. It’s about acknowledging the immensity of the universe, while remembering that we’ve each got our own private constellation of issues to deal with down here. It’s a typically Villainous contrast of rapture and irony, with a murmured coda recorded as she was falling asleep one night. “Everything I write has to be true,” she says, “even if I sometimes find it’s too confessional. Whatever was my truth at that moment.”