For her formidable Fifty-Two Weeks project, Australian sound-sculptor Madeleine Cocolas composed and recorded a track a week for a whole year. Drawing from the best cuts, and rounding it out with some new material, her debut album, Cascadia, is a distinctly cinematic, almost synesthetic entry into Seattle’s ambient/electronic scene.
Opening on the throbbing, oceanic synths of “The Sea Beneath Me,” the album immediately establishes Cocolas’s deftness with atmosphere and pacing, as the bass subtly morphs from amniotic warmth to ominous buzzing with her coos floating innocently above the fray…