{"id":12387,"date":"2025-07-21T07:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/12387\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T07:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:25:08","slug":"disiniblud-rachika-nayar-nina-keith-disiniblud-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/12387\/","title":{"rendered":"Disiniblud \/ Rachika Nayar \/ Nina Keith: Disiniblud Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the 1977 queer manifesto The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions<\/a>, author Larry Mitchell juxtaposes the fantasies of \u201cthe faggots\u201d with those of \u201cthe men.\u201d The men fantasize about control, domination, personal accumulation; the faggots about love, solidarity, communal embodiment. In their self-titled debut Disiniblud, composer-musicians (and self-described Larry Mitchell fangirls) Rachika Nayar<\/a> and Nina Keith<\/a> bring to life these queer fantasies, asking what queer utopia might feel like and how we might collectively get there.<\/p>\n

Built on the duo\u2019s longstanding friendship, Disiniblud (pronounced \u201cDisney blood\u201d) is a dreamy ode to community that weaves together electronic experimentation with subtle pop lyricism and explosive instrumentals with ambient soundscapes. It highlights the strengths within each artist\u2019s solo music: Where Nayar\u2019s 2022 debut full-length Heaven Come Crashing<\/a> offered a transcendent mash-up of club beats and post-rock grandiosity, Keith\u2019s 2019 MARANASATI 19111<\/a> leaned into found sound and formlessness. On Disiniblud, Nayar\u2019s compositional rigor and Keith\u2019s intuitive process produce an album whose moments of quiet are as pointed as they are open-ended and whose moments of rapture embrace desire as much as release.<\/p>\n

For Disiniblud, utopia is an exercise in imagination and observation alike. On the bucolic \u201cSerpentine,\u201d featuring Cassandra Croft, an undulating guitar and muted piano trade looping figures back and forth, evoking the gentle rocking motion of a lullaby. Croft\u2019s reverb-soaked vocals float atop shimmering synths, as the sun grows, a door opens, and we are launched towards the bright unknown. If \u201cSerpentine\u201d is a daydream, \u201cTraces in the window\u201d is its lunar counterpart. The haunting alto of ASPIDISTRAFLY\u2019s April Lee, reminiscent of Grouper<\/a>, narrates dark silhouettes from behind a pane: \u201ca stray creature,\u201d \u201ca stanza,\u201d \u201cthe spleen of existence.\u201d Observation gives way to revelation and, by extension, another world.<\/p>\n

In uncovering multiple portals to utopia, Disiniblud home in on childlike wonder\u2014a force that permeates the entire album. On \u201cBlue Rags, Raging Wind,\u201d hammered figures play in rounds, recalling a toy xylophone or a music box. Meanwhile, simple keyboard melodies on tracks like \u201cNo more to see\u201d and \u201cwhole30 Fight Club\u201d recall the guileless piano work of ambient composer Harold Budd<\/a>. Proof that \u201cchildlike\u201d doesn\u2019t always mean \u201csimple,\u201d the title track sounds like a direct descendant of Sigur Ros\u2019s \u201cHopp\u00edpolla\u201d<\/a> (Icelandic for \u201chopping in puddles\u201d), both in its youthful exuberance and its sweeping emotional arc. Video game blips and whirring machines propel the track skyward into a dramatic post-rock windstorm. In featuring nearly all of the album\u2019s collaborators, including Julianna Barwick<\/a>, Tujiko Noriko<\/a>, and Willy Siegel of Ponytail<\/a>, the track acts as a thesis statement on the centrality of community to Disiniblud\u2019s vision of paradise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the 1977 queer manifesto The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, author Larry Mitchell juxtaposes the fantasies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[342,49,48,75,341,343],"class_list":["post-12387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-albums","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}