"To find out anything about Jennifer Walton, you have to chase the 29-year-old British producer across the internet. By day, she's a part-time producer at NTS. She's a live member of Kero Kero Bonito and part of singer Sarah Midori Perry's side project Cryalot. Alongside aya and 96 Back, she forms the hardcore group Microplastics. That crew's Mutualism label released Walton's 2019 EP White Nurse, a spin on power electronics that explicitly rejected the genre's fascist flirtations to remake it as a music of transcendence."
"As a maximalist take on the disarray and distortions of grief, it feels worthy of comparison to Phil Elverum's capacity for terror and awe. You could superficially liken its machine-anaesthetized intimacy to the work of claire rousay; Walton's crushed, tactile evocations of the absurd to Laurie Anderson or David Lynch; the furiously detailed thumbscrew intensity to Hakushi Hasegawa, Aviary-era Julia Holter, or Sufjan at his most heated."
Jennifer Walton is a 29-year-old London songwriter and producer who works part-time at NTS, performs live with Kero Kero Bonito, and appears in Cryalot and hardcore group Microplastics. Mutualism released her 2019 EP White Nurse, which reframed power electronics as transcendence, and she released a playful four-track club EP in 2020 while contributing to other artists' records and DJ sets. Daughters is a visionary, maximalist album that channels grief, overwhelm, and detachment through crushed organic instrumentation, intimate vocals, and machine-anaesthetized textures. The record combines aggressive beauty, desperation, and inventive production, evoking comparisons to Phil Elverum, claire rousay, Laurie Anderson, David Lynch, Hakushi Hasegawa, Julia Holter, and Sufjan.
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