Bleep

At first, the collective sound of Australian duo Jarrod Zlatic and Nisa Venerosa is so slight as to be indistinguishable to the naked ear. Pre-musical phrases loop around, and you’ll swear you’ve caught them in an intimate moment prior to recording. Plain Songs deals in this kind of interstitial space, winding near-ambient field recordings into expansive invocations of matte noise, elevated by Venerosa’s pearlescent vocals. This goes from quiet to loud before you even notice.