Photo: Clifford Kiing

Following last year’s Answers EP and their inclusion in the 2024 Whitney Biennial, vocalist, composer, producer, and performer Holland Andrews has announced a new ongoing series of ambient drone works titled Aromatherapy: Vol. 1. Created over the past five years for personal use, Andrews is now sharing these extended compositions. This series, as the press release explains, “is composed to stimulate your home or your headspace with uplifted peace, flow, self-realization, and relaxation, akin to how one uses aromatherapy.”

Each volume in the series takes on a different mood or intention, from meditation and grounding to creative focus, and tracks run 20–30 minutes, roughly the length of time it takes for incense to burn, an intentional design element.

Aromatherapy: Vol. 1 will see the light of day this Friday May 16th through Good Cloud Day, and ahead of it, they have shared the first track, ‘The Raft’. “The Raft was crafted to soothe the mind,” Andrews says. “Its delicate chord cluster floats beneath a blanket of breathful oceanic tides, perpetually shifting. It represents an interior lighthouse, an eternal beacon that remains lit and shines a compassionate presence throughout change.” ‘The Raft’ is offered with accompanying visuals. Check it out below and let yourself drift away.