Julianna Barwick: "Forever," Live On Soundcheck

Hear the entire session and interview: http://soundcheck.wnyc.org/2013/aug/1...

To listen to the hypnotic choral voices of Julianna Barwick is to be swept away, transported to a musical world out of time. Her songs are lush, yet minimally constructed, parsing out fragments of looped word-less vocal phrases and spare instrumentation and layering them into church-filling meditations.

For previous records, like 2011's superb (and perfectly titled) The Magic Place, Barwick, assembled her music on a laptop, alone in her Brooklyn bedroom "studio." Yet for Nepenthe, her forthcoming record (out Aug. 20), Barwick turned to Icelandic musician Alex Somers (of Sigur Rós, Jónsi) to record this latest collection of moody and experimental tapestries.

Watch Julianna Barwick perform "Forever" in the Soundcheck studio.