Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Seeping Through the Veil of the Unconscious

Motion Sickness of Time Travel is the solo moniker of
La Grange, Georgia's Rachel Evans. She also plays
in the duo Quiet Evenings with her husband and runs
the Hooker Vision label. And while she's done some
really great stuff, this album takes all of it, everything, to
incredible new heights.

"Seeping Through the Veil of the Unconscious" came
to the Digitalis label out of nowhere as a demo and the
label reckon that it's the best demo they’ve ever received.
Evans concocts five whirlwind romances all in the
space of less than an hour. Beauty, magic and bleeding
effervescence come together in perfect harmony. Vague
electronic meanderings hide hints of early Grouper as
Evans' compositions sing like an ecstatic choir. While the
songs are built around vaguely-catchy, repetitive synth
backbones, she laces an incredible array of instrumental
layers between those bones, creating music that is as
dense and complex as it is continuous. Yet, the real star
here is her voice. sometimes at the fore, other times
buried underneath plodding keys – but always highly
evocative.

As the opening chords and rising whispers
of "Clairvoyance" begin, you’re immediately immersed
into the well. Evans' voice delivers haunted, wordless
lullabies that sound distant and strange yet oddly
comforting. The entire aural world of "Seeping" is
populated with ghosts, haunting the crevices between
notes and adding a beguiling sense of complexity. With
heavy kraut influences, "Mental Projection" is a midnight
gem while the dark, rhythmic sequences of "Telepathy"
would perfectly fill the halls of a spectral ballroom.

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