No Fear No Gear by Marie Krüttli

For fans of Wendy Eisenberg, Björk, Still House Plants, the recent trend towards experimental lounge jazz, and those fraught emotional moments when our internal dialogue shuts down entirely, No Fear No Gear by Marie Krüttli employs many human and instrumental storytellers and voices to guide us through a maximalist aesthetic space. Founded upon the structures of rock music with a dominant drum kit and electric bass, the constant addition of jazz flair at every available turn radically expands the sound, sending our attention darting from soloist to counterpoint to riff to breakdown. The entire unit lifts us into a space so intense as to strand us between euphoria and panic, an instant of raw feeling which passes in and out of our vocabulary and constantly meets new contexts in our subconscious. By organizing this snapshot into a musical landscape, we make sense of these otherwise overwhelming sensations and learn to inhabit that ambiguity, celebrating the raw intensity through a wild, free, and fun collaborative sound.