Cate Von Csoke - Spindle (self-released)

This lead track from Cate Von Csoke’s forthcoming album, The Air Dangerous, is less a song and more a sonic experience, an atmosphere, a mood. I am fully aware that might sound pretentious, but some music goes beyond mere song and perhaps engages with the listener in less usual ways. If songs are merely about creating something to entertain, perhaps inform, “Spindle” is a soundscape to be absorbed, to find yourself cocooned in, a sonic state that is experienced more by osmosis than by the usual senses.

It is a song built of floating ethereality and drifting textures, soundscape and sensuality, darkness and delight, a sort of blend of the shaded beauty of, say Zola Jesus and the intelligent and emotive sonic designs of Natasha Khan’s Bat For Lashes. Not a bad place to find yourself.

This dreamscape that she conjures was born of a reflection on the complexity of love as she traversed the majestic beauty of the Pacific Northwest. While such thoughts will always be personal, this is a relatable song, the listener connecting, if not with the actual lyrics and message, then certainly with the mood and the sense of musing, pathos, thoughtfulness, and reflection.

“Spindle” may follow in the footsteps of a number of iconic music makers, not least of all Kate Bush, but here, she creates something that is all her own, alike but still unique.

Gorgeous – there is no other word for it. Actually, there are others, plenty – beautiful, delicate, deft, dreamlike, majestic, otherworldy, ethereal…

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