Head Slash Bauch

AGF’s debut album, released after the dissolution of her avant-electro-pop duo Laub, is a startling deconstruction of language. Its nearly two dozen tracks feature soft patterns of static and subtly glitchy rhythms that become louder as they progress, but the focus is on tiny, sliced and diced vocal phrases which stutter and murmur, sometimes seeming to whisper about and comment on each other. It’s deeply disorienting, because the voice is a key sound source, but it’s not treated as more important than other sounds, which is the antithesis of pop music. Best heard on headphones, where it can sink into your mind until you realize just how beautiful it is.