“While it takes the same hazy gaze upon the otherworldly, it replaces the abstract ideas and concepts of Silver Summit with intimate songs of love and loss. It’s an intricate album that soars through the ethereal, then dives, pummeling into moments of anxious yet delicate noise, all the while being led by Sun-Odeon’s haunting voice.” —AltSounds
“There’s a wildness in Sondra Sun-Odeon’s altered folk, a sense not of home-y hedgerows and kitchen gardens but salty, windblown shores. It starts in her flickery voice, now a soft, shy murmur, now an in-drawn octave-leaping breath, now a raw bird-like cry cutting through the mix.” —Blurt
” On her solo debut, Ætherea, Sun-Odeon – with the help of some very talented friends – creates a set of songs worthy of her stunning voice. Ætherea is a collection comprised of meticulously arranged pieces of depressive psych-folk. The core of the compositions is clean electric guitar and strings. On most songs, the percussion is minimal. Sometimes, it consists of little more than chimes, tambourines and cymbals. When there is a drum kit, it remains quite low in the mix. Consequently, Ætherea tends to move to the rhythm of the strings, resulting in songs that feel weightless.” —OurVinyl
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BIO
Sondra Sun-Odeon is a New York-based singer, recording artist who is the voice of Silver Summit whose debut was released on Drag City imprint, Language of Stone.
Residing in the same spiritual vein of Silver Summit, Sun-Odeon’s solo songs travel further into the ether of her lyrics’ darkly romantic world, full of heartbreaking longing and desire. On her debut, Ætherea, guitar loops meet clouds of delicate string arrangements and morph into fingerpicked arpeggios…ethereal vocals morph into banshee-wailing abandon adjacent to detuned guitars. The sounds are at times reminiscent of Earth, Keiji Haino, while the mood and voice call to mind Grace Slick, Jason Molina, the lost doom of Nico…and yet exist in a unique tonal world of its own that’s extremely difficult to pin down.
Ætherea includes collaborations with Helena Espvall (of Espers) on cello, Leyna Marika Papach (Carla Bouzalich, JG Thirlwell’s Manorexia) on violin and viola, and percussion by Ben McConnell (Beach House, Brightblack Morning Light, Marissa Nadler, Rain Machine). She has shared bills with Tim Hecker, Doug Paisley, Little Wings, Wooden Wand, Mike Wexler, Eric Carbonara and others.
