Unexpected beauty abounds on Klein's surprise new album

Ever since Tommy, her scrambled, glitching breakthrough EP released on Hyperdub in 2017, her fractious sound collages – tapestries of steely, shuddering textures and disembodied vocals – have earmarked her as an artist who really gets the paranoia and neuroses of the age in which she is working. Meanwhile, her prankster tendencies have ensured that you simply never know what she’s going to get up to next. But in spite of the many accolades her music has won her, the legions of famous fans and collaborators she’s accrued – Arca, MIKE, and The Avalanches, to name a few – Klein’s musical career remains unknown even to some of those she's closest to. In 2017, she confessed to FADER that her family had no idea about her art – “I don’t really talk to them like that,” she said – and the promotional materials for my own fairytale reveal that this is still the case. It’s this feeling of living a double life that inspired this week’s surprise drop. The work sees Klein craft something fantastical, a tilted Disney soundtrack to her own life, done the only way she knows how. Cinematic in scope but deeply experimental in execution, it’s an ambient monsterclass that takes influences from all sort...