If you're going to commission someone to interview a member of an "electronic drone choir", then you might as well ask the person who wrote the book on it - literally. Monolithic Undertow author Harry Sword's chat with Sian O'Gorman of NYX for the Quietus helps to make sense of Deep England, the choir's "immersive, sinister, beautiful" reimagining of Gazelle Twin's Pastoral - the latter also an album I didn't fully get at first but that has since really connected.
NYX take the idea of voices as instruments to extremes, using them as the basis for constructing whole songs via a mixture of analogue means and technological trickery. The results are stunning.
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