Stuck in a weird limbo between pop and freeform psych.

The musicians disappear into the work.

[xrr rating=3.75/5]Experimental music is often a needlessly clinical endeavor, haphazard in its renouncement of conventional musical style and structure. Such is not the case for Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s synth-driven experiments on Euclid, a minimalist take on modern electropop. The album slowly picks away at the characteristics of the genre with fragmented synthesizers, at once spacey and pastoral, that paint melodies …