Look into the mirror of Maria BC’s stunning 2021 release Hyaline, and emerge on the other side haunted. On Hyaline Remixes, five tracks from the original indie “ambient-folk” album are recast by experimental artists, induced by the mysticism of doom metal and even darker, avant-garde ambient and techno wavelengths. Low-tuned guitars ooze a thick emotional residue while cascading vocal ambiance culminates in ecstatic dissonances. The reintepretations assemble a distorted complement to an already somber original; in Maria BC’s words, the artists have “transformed the meaning of these tracks and elevated them.” Ancestral and deeply existential energy courses throughout.
