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On "Mjisnjedschaz," the most stirring moment on her second longplayer, Fjorden, German producer Barbara Morgenstern takes a turn as a purring neo-pop princess. She weaves coy, coquettish, almost-choral croons over a slow-burning backing track that cooks up buttery analog organ, dissolving it over a licentious flame that licks at a dissolute dissolution of disheveled beats, rattling software jams, fluorescent-buzz synth-strings and hovering modular drones. Such a song highlights Morgenstern's talent at stirring sterling strangeness through simple songs, with every basic ballad a pot of deceptively deep bubbling waters. Often aided by ~scape-honcho/Pole-boffin Stefan Betke, and with guest turns from Orb collab-hand Thomas Fehlmann and To Rococo Rot's Lippok brothers, the mix manages to leave an audible sense of space around Morgenstern's subtle electro inflections of deep analog moods, letting the sly subtlety register with natural assimilation.
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