From the non-native language of Gabriel Jasmin:
From whispers to screams, Braids’ Native Speaker encapsulates an immense array of emotion. The album maintains a wet and undulating pulse, a backbone for dense, overlapping melodies, akin to classic minimalist composers. Over a year in the making, not a single texture or sound was left unpolished by the band’s distinctive minutiae throughout the process of writing, recording and mixing. Reaching an emotional climax in the haunting “Lammicken”, a standout song for singer Raphaelle Standell-Preston’s powerful delivery, it is clear that the young quartet have an unsettling and unique talent to communicate sensibility through sound.