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FELT wade deeper into the murky waters of contemporary Scandinavian electroacoustic music following the recent reissue of Johan Wieths Health & Safety project on sub-label LEFT and established gems from the likes of Civilistjavel! Ginte Preisaite, a Lithuanian artist and graduate of Copenhagens Rhythmic Music Conservatory, reveals her first solo release under her own name, following a collaborative effort with Toshimaru Nakamura in 2025 and a number of cassettes as Baraboro. The deliberately genre-blurring sound Preisaite deploys works with composed pop vignettes, sustained drones, FX manipulations and guttural bursts of noise. Sparse piano movements, sample-laden psychedelia and moments of big beat/trip-hop rhythms gel with crowd noise, close micd intimacy and experimental percussion with a focus on instrumental timbres and extended techniques. With a background in composing for large ensembles, Preisaite's multi-instrumental approach is evident across the eight tracks, moments of dense concrete-style sound collages anchored by the human voice never being far away. She laments on fantasy, absurdity and relationships as a cast of players contribute string, brass, accordion, and guitar parts. Passages move from delicate acoustic folk motifs through to wide-eyed, cut-and-paste glitch electronics and spectral melodic riffs, making the album an unorthodox and welcome addition to Denmark's current world-class music scene.