Carmen Villain
Only Love From Now On
Smalltown Supersound
The Norwegian-Mexican American instrumentalist and producer Carmen Hillestad has matured record by record and collaboration by collaboration. Her fourth solo album is next level even by her lofty standards. At times it leans to ambient, fourth world, dub techno, Steve Reich-ish minimalism and more but it’s way beyond all that: fully immersed in it this is genuinely ecstatic, in the old school Greek ‘ekstasis’ sense of taking you beyond yourself. Ultra detailed, ultra lush, ultra embracing, it’s a masterpiece, frankly.
