Daily Edit | Jun 15

When Kelsey Lu began working on So Help Me God, their first album since 2019’s Blood, they found themselves inspired by the works of Italian artist Caravaggio: lush, dramatic paintings of rot and death, entombed in striking shafts of light and darkness. This harsh interplay—the purest of light, the deepest of shadows—felt like an appropriate starting point for Lu to explore the contradictions that most fascinated them: pain and healing; breaking points and transformations; throaty, guttural cries for help and secret reserves of strength within. The simultaneous hurt and beauty of faith, music, love, and life prove fertile terrain for the experimental cellist. -Paste

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