Album Of The Month: -io

S ARTIST HALEY FOHR aka Circuit Des Yeux sure knows how to pack a opens with a bloodcurdling 30-second piano-drop intro—the kind that plays out when the killer strikes his unsuspecting victim. From then on, she consistently builds on this theme of shock, with each track going into places you’d least expect. There’s the show-stopping funereal waltz “Neutron Star” that evokes a sense of morose nostalgia, preceded by the unnerving “Sculpting the Exodus” dabbling playfully in baroque opera, and the agonising “Stranger” which sees Fohr howling like the mythical La Llorona, mourning the children she drowned.