Birth rates may have declined during the pandemic, but a year of quasi-seclusion has yielded a lot of music. Norah Lorway just released her latest entry in that phenomenon, [*anotherworld I*](https://xylemrecords.bandcamp.com/album/anotherworld-i), which she characterizes as “lockdown sound loops”: “repetitive, insistent, ever present.” Harsh noise is muffled to gaseous effect; soft sounds are shredded to sharp objects. The music revels in such contradictions over the course of the album’s four tracks.
Album published at [xylemrecords.bandcamp.com](https://xylemrecords.bandcamp.com/album/anotherworld-i). It was released by Xylem Records. More from Lorway at [norahlorway.com](https://www.norahlorway.com/).