The Patterns Lost to Air - Marielle V Jakobsons (2026)
Another dose of beautiful calm for you today. Maybe I’m going soft, but I’m okay with it.
This is Jakobsons’ first solo record in a decade, having collaborated widely since then. While I haven’t listened to her previous things, I’m told this is a turn to more tuneful and harmonic work rather than minimalist drone she’d been known for.
This is the kind of record that depends on my mood whether I’m going to enjoy it or not. It’s not demanding, necessarily, but it’s easy to let the soft changes and progressions fade to the background as you get busy doing other things. In this case, even having a good think about a topic that isn’t Marielle V Jakobsons can send the experience to the perceptual background.
I like this sort of thing if i’m traveling, even on a plane if my noise cancelling headphones are up for rendering the details. In those cases, I have nothing to distract me from the music.
As it is, I had a number of demands on my time and cognitive energies today and I had to kind of meet this halfway.
It held up admirably for as much as I asked of it. I’ll try not to be so difficult next time I encounter it.
