From Gas to Solid / You Are My Friend

After a six-year absence focused on motherhood and acting, Austrian artist Anja Plaschg returns with a remarkably gentle, highly orchestral evolution of her typically dark sound. Escaping the suffocating, gothic intensity of her early work, the record utilizes beautiful classical instrumentation, choral arrangements, and subtle electronic beats to explore healing and newfound serenity. It stands as a gorgeously optimistic, emotionally profound triumph of modern art pop.