U.e. – Hometown Girl LP

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U.e. (Ulla Strauss) dives deeper into the instrumental world with Hometown Girl, a quietly delicate affair featuring plenty of room sounds, upright piano, woodwinds, strings, voice, and live drums. Much like 2024’s Jazz Plates, a collaboration with sound artist Perila, Ulla takes a “people making music in the same room” approach on a number of the tracks, giving the recordings a familiar chamber quality. Room microphones (or is it iPhone?) capture all the intricacies of live performance, with the creaking of guitar strings and other silent sounds adding layers of color. Cute, looping electronic vignettes—the Ulla signature—are sprinkled throughout the record as well. Beautiful as always.