A composite of some of the science-inflected music albums out in 2023
(Komorebi)
In this high-concept, anime-inspired album, Komorebi becomes her alter ego, Kiane, an alien who visits Earth on a voyage of self-discovery. Transported by delicate vocals and the sweeping orchestration, I felt punch-drunk by the end. Bethan Ackerley
(Complete Mountain Almanac)
Rebekka Karijord and Jessica Dessner have put together something remarkable with this album that started as a climate change project, but morphed after Dessner’s breast cancer diagnosis. It is a haunting work on nature’s healing cycles. BA
