ithaca

reviews

Featured in NPR Music’s No. 1 Albums of May 2020 - All Songs Considered, NPR Music

TOP 10 MODERN COMPOSITIONS 2020 - A Closer Listen

2020 IN REVIEW: MODERN CLASSICAL - Stationary Travels

BEST AMBIENT OF 2020: Honorable Mention - Post Ambient Lux

BEST OF 2020 QUIET SPACE TOP 100 COUNTDOWN - PIMPOD (Number 8)

THE MODERNS 2020 FAVOURITES - The Moderns

BEST of 2020 - Cyclic Defrost

“Ithaca’s intense atmospherics might overwhelm your senses, flood your listening environment and transport you somewhere else if you let it” - Leah Kardos, The Wire

“Able to summon tender melodies from a solo piano or spin up a kaleidoscopic storm of electronic sounds, Ithaca traverses a dazzling range of tones, textures, moods, and emotions” - Brian Housman, Stationary Travels

“Ithaca, her third album is so lush and controlled. It is a thing of beauty.” - Bob Baker Fish, Cyclic Defrost

“You will feel this album deeply” - Kevin Press, The Moderns

“The always exciting Madeleine Cocolas is back with a new full-length, Ithaca (Room40), filled with percolating, emotional music.” - Marc Weidenbaum, Disquiet 

“Ithaca is a tranquil, expansive phantom. It is more than just a place, it is also a web of emotional states and historical traces where the twists of grand myths meet the common patterns of everyday life” - David Murrieta Flores, A Closer Listen

“It's an album… ultimately of hope.” - Peter Hollo, Utility Fog

“An authentic and heartfelt album” - Mario Ariano, Radioaktiv

“Ithaca is a minimal/ambient album that carries a lot of weight.” - Sound As Language

“A majestic piece of music. [A Basic Understanding’s] tangible sense of awe and wonder feels especially moving.” - Shawn Reynaldo, First Floor