Lyndsie Alguire - Time Is But The Drawing Of A Sword (2024)

Hush Hush is thrilled to welcome Canadian musician Lyndsie Alguire to the label’s roster to help present her latest full-length album, ‘time is but the drawing of a sword.’ A mesmerizing exploration of whimsical ambient passages and ethereal dream-pop ballads, the album captures a magnetic melancholic tone with flickers of glimmering hope over its sweeping 10-track journey.

Based in a Tiohtià:ke (so-called Montreal) territory, Lyndsie has been a steady presence on the underground ambient scene for over a decade now, combining her academic passions for audio engineering and film photography to create immersive, poignant, bittersweet music. Since putting out her debut release in 2011, Lyndsie’s DIY approach has led to many self-released records, as well as releases on passion-project labels such as Time Released Sound, Trembl, and Camomille Music, and her most recent album, 2022’s ‘…like butterfly wings,’ found a home on Reflections, Anjunadeep’s chillout-focused subsidiary label.

Nearly two years since her last record, Lyndsie returns with her most intimate release yet. Marking her debut for Hush Hush Records, ‘time is but the drawing of a sword’ is right at home on the Pacific Northwest label and its long-running curatorial focus on music that’s emotional, cinematic, and introspective. Whereas her previous works have often utilized enveloping walls of sound and heavy layering of instrumentation, this album presents sounds in near-isolation, with tracks gently swelling and blossoming before disintegrating and dissipating completely. Her delicate balance of piano, synthesizers, field recordings, and voice yields a lush and spacious record that teeters between comforting warmth and fragile uncertainty.

This dueling narrative is reflected in the album’s accompanying interactive game. The game’s choose-your-own-adventure storyline asks the user whether or not to abandon everything at any cost.