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Holly Herndon

Since her arrival in 2012, Holly Herndon has successfully mined the edges of electronic and Avant Garde pop and emerged with a dynamic and disruptive canon of her own.  Born in the mountains of East Tennessee, she went from singing in church to enrolling in a German exchange program.  Adopting Berlin as a second home, she cut her teeth performing in the city’s clubs prior to attending Mills College.  She utilized the laptop as “the most intimate instrument, cultivating live voice processing systems and developing custom vocal patches to construct experimental pieces performed in real-time.  She put those pieces into play on the likes of 'Breathe' and 'Dilato' from her full-length debut, Movement.

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Foreword

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2019

4AD

A hugely rewarding year at 4AD, including releases by The National, Aldous Harding, Holly Herndon and two new albums by Big Thief ...

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2018

Another very busy year at 4AD saw stellar releases from vital artists including Tune-Yards, U.S. Girls, The Breeders...

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