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‘We are masses moving within a huge chaos.’ This is how Gaye Su Akyol, singer-songwriter and rising star, describes her latest album, situating it squarely as an act of resistance inside the (Consistent Fantasy is Reality) is the Istanbul-based iconoclast’s second album. It’s thrilling, stirring and, most important, offers up a sonic dissent to the authoritarian reality that it confronts. The fantasy that Akyol’s title invokes is not so much one of internal exile, but an invitation to listeners to dare to dream, to rebel, to stand apart from the chaos.