Audiopile Review: Truly weird shit is not prominent enough in electronic music, where recycling genre conventions is all-to-often replacing genuine experimentalism. Thank goodness for square pegs like Claire Rousay. You never know what to expect from her. Straightforwardly beautiful ambient drones? Bedroom indie folk? Bracingly extreme computer music? Rousay’s latest, ‘No Floor’, is the latest in a series of collaborations with More Eaze (aka Mari Maurice), a friend from her childhood in San Antonio, Texas. Whereas their previous collabs have tended to focus on explosively colourful hyperpop deconstructions, ‘No Floor’ is something more like ambient bedroom computer music. Seriously. Hypnotic synth washes, plaintive guitars, and eruptions of glitchy noise are woven into a seamlessly coherent aesthetic tapestry. Claire Rousay is an important artist, and this is one of her most significant releases to date. But it may be Maurice’s lovely multitracked violin parts that take this one over the top. Come for the weirdness, stay for the beauty.

more eaze and claire rousay’s collaborations are effortlessly joyful; their music evoking the warmth and respect they have for each other. Their bond goes back to their youthful hometown of San Antonio, Texas where they played in country outfits and noise rock bands respectively. more eaze (the moniker of violinist/multi-instrumentalist Mari Maurice) and rousay have spent the past decade pushing boundaries, standing together at the vanguard of genre-shattering music that thrills and surprises with its vulnerability and creativity.

no floor weds their prowess as sound designers and masterful skills as composers with their skills as acoustic instrumentalists. Eschewing the auto-tune inflected pop-psychedelia and found sounds of their previous collaborations, no floor is collage music as pastoral melancholia, a lush tour into their own version of Americana.