Kenniff, Hollie: We All Have Places That We Miss LP

Hollie Kenniff's second LP for Western Vinyl, "We All Have Places That We Miss", is a gallery of cloudlike synths, seraphic strings, and humming guitars, all coaxed into cohesion by Hollie's own wordless singing. The album's 2021 precursor, "The Quiet Drift", landed on Bandcamp's Best Ambient list alongside the description "drawing on the deep tones of drone, dream pop harmonies, and new age's bright tranquility, Kenniff evokes the forests, lakes and rivers of her past and present surroundings with a zen patience". Here she strides even further into reminiscence, seeking and commemorating the fondly tragic ache of half-remembered locales lost to time. "We All Have Places That We Miss" transmutes such glimmers into a palpable sonic kingdom that can be revisited at will, recalling the pedal-board ambience of Windy & Carl, Adam Wiltzie, and Liz Harris.