An addendum and expansion of sorts to themes explored on the recent ‘Selkie Reflections’, album, Enyo here places that work in a more raw context with an uncanny ethereality. Her vocal performance is startling, arcing from breathy gasps to choral longing and a sort of swirling gregorian chanting that casts spirits in more ambiguous directions.

The A-side’s ‘Mysticeti’ pitches Alliyah in her Baptist Goth duo with Dylan Kerr, whose solo work has been issued by 3XL. Performing facing each other, illuminated with a single beam of light, they project a spellbinding helix of smoke curl glossolalia, layering wordless drones with throat singing and overtones in a sort of transfixing, keening lament.

Rejoining Florian TM Zeisig, ‘Mhaigdean Mhara’ on the b side is a more blissed version of the brief, with Alliyah’s voice a distanced presence within the fathomless reverberations of Florian’s E-bowed bass guitar drones, setting the vocals siren-like, seductively calling from a wide-open, ominously calm-but-deep oceanic space.

– Boomkat