Album Review: no floor by more eaze & claire rousay

In a way, No Floor – the latest collaborative effort from experimental artists More Eaze (Mari Maurice) and Claire Rousay - is a considerable move forward for both musicians, mainly because of what they don’t do here. While so much of their past work (individually and as a team) implemented Auto-Tune, confessional pop song frameworks, and found sound, this latest album sees them embracing a more minimalist, organic form of ambient sound. The result is a striking, restrained series of soundscapes touching on their mutual love of ambient country and experimental noise, still crashing down barriers but in a way that seems oddly accessible.

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Longtime collaborators and kindred spirits More Eaze and Claire Rousay seem to embody a select group of internet-era musicians who have actually made good out of an unprecedented access to music, where so much work is detached from its context and sense of purpose. Their music reflects their rich background in experimental music, but it's also informed by slowcore, indie folk, ambient and emo. These are all genres that can often be dismissed as having a suffocating sense of pathos, and it should be said that I can be one of those critics.

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