{"title":"SRSQ","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSRSQ (pronounced seer-skew) is the solo project of Kennedy Ashlyn, a talented vocalist and keyboardist known for her work with Them Are Us Too. With a hauntingly beautiful sound, SRSQ captivates listeners with her ethereal vocals and atmospheric synth melodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInfluenced by artists such as Body of Light, Zanias, and Drab Majesty, SRSQ creates music that seamlessly blends elements of darkwave, post-punk, and dream pop. Her captivating performances have earned her a dedicated following within the underground music scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKnown for her introspective lyrics and emotive delivery, SRSQ's music delves into themes of loss, longing, and self-discovery. 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The tracks gleam with detail, often assembled from as many as 100 separate tracks, all of which were written and played solely by Ashlyn – a feat of world-building as daunting as it is devastating.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom swooning end credits balladry (“Dead Loss”) to orchestral slow-burn torch songs (“Abyss”) to dizzying shoegaze heavens (“Someday I Will Bask In The Sun”), the album exudes a sense of aching grandeur and bewildered joy, rich with triumphs hard won and lost loves never forgotten. Melodies pirouette and crescendo in dazzling, elevated acrobatics, somewhere between Kate Bush and The Sundays, threaded with ethereal undercurrents of shimmering shadow. Riffs brood and sparkle over crystalline synths, buoyant bass, and patient percussion, steadily building to holy moments of tidal power, finessed to perfection by producer Chris Coady (Beach House, Slowdive, Zola Jesus). 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Creative voids aren’t filled, but rather holes left that push the edges of the present into new realms of consciousness. Ambient synthesizers that approach harshness, relentless arpeggiations act together with Kennedy’s vocals as a lush weapon, weaving cloudlike fables over orchestration that’s familiar and foreign. Trance-like at times, yet always rooted in cadence and structure, the synesthesia of sound and feeling takes cues from the delicate miasma of Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, or Dead Can Dance, using their example as the ground floor for building a new temple of frequency. SRSQ’s pulse began after the death of Kennedy’s closest friend and Taut collaborator Cash Askew, a casualty in the sudden and tragic Oakland Ghost Ship Fire of 2016. Driven by loss, SRSQ became the vehicle for Kennedy’s transformative process, exploring nuance, nostalgia, reflection, and reconciliation, manifesting in the aural landscape of \u003ci\u003eUnreality\u003c\/i\u003e. 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