Kali MaloneBest Kali Malone Albums Ranked

The Sacrificial Code

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8.6

“A new reissue offers a chance to revisit the experimental composer’s breakthrough 2019 album for pipe organ, an otherworldly maze of tones with a powerful emotional pull.”

All Life Long

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8.3

“On an interconnected suite of pieces for pipe organ, brass ensemble, and chamber choir, the composer balances minimalist intensity with sacred music’s depth of feeling.”

All Life Long

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8.0

“To date, Kali Malone’s albums have felt more like commemorations of live events than free-standing musical objects. All Life Long, however, has a greater sense of its own agency than hitherto: the 12 pieces here, written for choir, brass ensemble or pipe organ, feature recurring patterns that echo off each other as the album progresses, and a single-sitting listening is rewarded with a sense of mo”

Does Spring Hide Its Joy (feat. Stephen O'Malley & Lucy Railton)

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8.0

“Presented as a sprawling three-hour epic, the composer’s drone piece for guitar, cello, and sine wave oscillators seeks new rhythms within the interminable sweep of pandemic time.”

Living Torch

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8.0

“The Stockholm-based composer is best known for her pipe-organ compositions, but here, she uses trombone, bass clarinet, and ARP 2500 to explore the strange radiance of just intonation.”

Does Spring Hide Its Joy

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5.0

“Kali Malone has made her name by pushing right at the edges of what is traditionally considered music. Distinctly post-minimal in approach, her sound pulls apart structure, rhythm, and tone and often blurs the lines between performance and art installation. Does Spring Hide Its Joy represents some of her most ambitious work. A collaboration between herself, Sunn O))) guitarist Stephen O’Malley an”