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Felicia Atkinson - Coyotes (Shelter Press, 2018)

Felicia Atkinson released a pretty highly acclaimed album last year called Hand in Hand that I didn't really care for, but I checked out her new EP Coyotes...and didn't really care for it either. Atkinson was inspired by a trip she took to New Mexico and her electronic bloops and blorps do an impressive job of recreating an imagined-desert landscape populated by the titular animal, dustswept and wind-torn, but it's like an art exhibit more than an enjoyable piece of music. Admirable but not terribly enjoyable. Pass (again).

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