Juneunit - Boskage (2022)

Electronic music as consumed by listeners if often defined or understood through curation, selecting a song purposefully to motivate a moment, whether you’re a DJ or someone creating a playlist in your bedroom. boskage steps outside of this familiarity in the way that it moves with us and adapts. Each track on boskage feels so incredibly personal, and yet they can’t be defined by a single setting. For those who lend an ear and willingly welcome the winding path that “reflection of time, place and emotion,” (a concept juneunit speaks of when describing her process for this release) might take you on, then the possibilities for how her music can shape your present moment are perceptively and sincerely endless.

While boskage is amorphous in it’s ability to color your surroundings, the way it pulls you in feels deliberate. boskage is driving, atmospheric and ambient with dubby and lo-fi elements. “the trash is done” is one track that beautifully encompasses all of these pieces, rolling through a single journey that explores a spectrum both contemplative and tranquil on one end, and determined and dancey on the other. Similarly, “arest b” plays with the way in which it grabs you, demanding that you listen intently or move your limbs.

One of the most captivating tracks on this release finds you at the end. Ambient and alluring, “pursuit” brings you in gently and builds to a blossoming of crystalline synthesizers that almost tangibly swirl around you while still driving you forward. Perhaps it is the track title alone, but as “pursuit” slowly unravels to its end, bringing the album to a close with it, it’s accompanied by a sense of exultance and release.