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Kate NV's Surreal Short Film Captures 'The Beauty In Simple Things'

The Russian electronic musician's oddly meditative music is set to the domestic comforts of the mundane.
A still from Kate NV's <em>для FOR (The Film)</em>.

There is not only love in a dedication, but an understanding of what it means to love that person or place or thing. Single songs and entire, and was written for her hometown of Moscow. The translation is typed in all caps, as if to boldly shout her love, yet the exploratory music she's created is quiet and hypnagogicly playful, a one-to-one declaration rendered in bubbly bleeps, rippling MIDI percussion and sparkling synths.

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