Mary Lou Newmark’s “Stitch” from her 2022 EP A Stitch in Time could be considered to be in the same realm of music as early The Art of Noise. What genre is a song that pulls together the sounds of classical violin in a modern pop mode, impressionistic percussion accents, the sound of a train horn, shakers, little glitches and pointillistic beeps and a jaunty dynamic that ties it together into a coherent whole? And then for the song to have an interlude of sampled clicks, water flowing, teletype machine running and video game-esque noises before heading back into violin led sections like a post-modern interpretation of Aaron Copland’s “Hoedown” that shifts seamlessly between all of these soundscapes for a song unlike much of anything anyone else is doing now. Listen to “Stitch” on Spotify.
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