Depths and Absence: The Resonant Sounds of Les Filles de Illighadad

Tobias Carroll
4 min readFeb 18, 2019

What is the space of a song? What do you expect when you cue up a piece of music via the device of your choice: a kind of fullness of arrangement, the onrush of arrangements that one gets when listening to everyone from Arcade Fire to St. Vincent to The Ronettes? Or do you prefer something pared-down–something where a song’s arrangement doesn’t feel as though every…

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Tobias Carroll

Writer of things. Managing editor, Vol.1 Brooklyn. Author of the collection TRANSITORY and the novel REEL.