Bleep

Shooting into stardom overnight can be a burden — such was the case for Kedr Livanskiy. With a debut album that made her the artist on everybody’s lips in the burgeoning Russian electronic scene, Livanskiy began to lose her sense of self. Her second LP Your Need is a story of rediscovery, as the musician takes on a new collaborator, St. Petersburg beat maker Zhenya, and begins infusing her electronic pop with the experimentalism of krautrock and ambient music. The result is a marvel of modern pop music, electrified by surges of techno and dance.