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  • Summary: This is the second full-length studio release on the Constellation label for Montreal-based producer Jean Cousin as Joni Void.
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  1. Apr 1, 2019
    90
    If Selfless had the producer disappearing into the commotion of modernity, sublimating himself among multiple narrators, here, he's retreating inward to rediscover who he is, each swirling entry rendered from a more subdued place of quiet contemplation.
  2. Apr 1, 2019
    80
    Mise En Abyme is a lot to unravel, but that disentanglement is its own reward. Cousin has plundered his experiences to create a yearning LP that nevertheless feels welcoming (and, more importantly, honest) every step of the way.
  3. Apr 1, 2019
    80
    Mise En Abyme hunts that sensation of flux and liminality, unearthing warmth in a landscape of paranoia.
  4. Mojo
    Apr 1, 2019
    80
    A profoundly sad and affecting collage of memory and longing, ghostly torch songs half-buried in the claustrophobic electronic clatter of the modern world. [May 2019, p.95]
  5. Apr 3, 2019
    80
    The tensive sentiments that lurked the prior compositions are now in focus, beginning with an ever-mounting wave of vocal crescendos. Each layer adds weight, and each disharmony adds tension.
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