“The most focused thing that I’ve ever done. But it’s funny because, in my mind, I’m already onto the next one.”
It’s fitting that she’s already moving on, because Apricot Angel is all about transitions. Transitional spaces, transitional times, transitional ways of being, and musical transition. Out now on Virginia/NYC label Citrus City Records, the new album from Oakland-based multi-instrumentalist Flung, aka Kashika Kollaikal, is a meditative, meandering collage of sparkling experimental pop inspired by the Bay Area’s most transitional ecosystems: shores and tide pools. Not just serving as “an important imagined site for explorations of her transness,” these liminal spaces directly inform the music, with special attention paid to the transitions between tracks as much as the changes and transformations that occur within them. An exploration of nature, the world, self, and between states, Apricot Angel couldn’t sound any riper.
