Beatrix Reopens Old Rooms On "We Swallowed The Sky"
- Charles Luberisse
- 9 hours ago
- 2 min read
Written By: Big C
Memory doesn’t knock politely. It seeps under the door, rearranges the furniture, and dares you to sit back down. On her sophomore album We Swallowed The Sky, Beatrix returns to a past love not to romanticize it, but to examine its afterimage. A pedal steel threads through the project like a phantom limb, binding past and present into one continuous ache. Where earlier work wrestled with being misunderstood, this collection feels idiosyncratic, sharply arranged, and entirely self-possessed. The record Class Reunion moves unpredictably with hushed piano passages which give way to full-band surges, melodies tilt sideways, while arrangements bloom and fracture in the same breath. As for a prophecy, she says:
Ten years later, they see each other at a class reunion. He has never quite moved on and desperately wants to talk. There have been a handful of attempts to reconnect over the years, but they’ve always been shut down. He sips a gin and tonic in the corner, working up the nerve to say hello. The conversation is brief and awkward— he fumbles over his words, bragging about his work. He can feel his chance slipping away and starts to have a panic attack. Everyone is pointing and laughing in slow motion. He wakes up, and she’s gone. It wasn’t real — it was just a nightmare. But one thing is true — no one loves him like she did.
The orchestral indie-rock vision of Arielle Kasnetz, leans into tension rather than smoothing it out. The result is chamber-pop that refuses symmetry, Lead single "Class Reunion" distills that unease into cinematic detail. Kasnetz sketches an imagined encounter between former lovers a decade later. It’s vivid, almost cruel in its clarity. Now based in Los Angeles after formative time in New York, Kasnetz built the album’s core with collaborators Philip Etherington and Ehren Ebbage before expanding the sonic palette with an ensemble that includes Greg Leisz on pedal steel and Rob Moose on strings. Stream "Class Reunion" now as "We Swallowed The Sky" arrives April 24 via Nice Life. Follow Beatrix on Instagram, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and TikTok.
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