
Caramel
Liesa Van der Aa
- 2 x LP
- Label
- Louisa’s Daughter Records

"Like a snail on a razor." That's how a friend of Liesa Van der Aa described her new album, Caramel — as a softness that wraps around sharp edges, but never lets itself be cut. A striking image, because with Caramel, Liesa presents her most personal work to date.
The "big sister" of her previous album, Easy Alice, still moves in the same jazzy universe. Although. To name a few references: you hear echoes of Laurie Anderson, this time interwoven with the early classics of James Blake and snippets of Billie Eilish and FKA Twigs. Electronica, contemporary classical, baroque, jazz, and hip-hop — Caramel, as Van der Aa herself likes to put it, wears all these coats simultaneously, nonchalantly layered over each other. And on top of that, more than ever before, the masks fall. "I wanted to make a record that feels like you're hearing someone think out loud," she says. "As if you're on the edge of someone's consciousness, without everything having been said yet."