16/05/2026
Music recommendation:
Whait - Icarus in Training
From Brooklyn, New York comes this delightful album, brimming with trip-hop atmosphere and emotion.
Do you love it as much as we do?
Whait - the pairing of Wendy Eisenberg and more eaze (mari maurice rubio) - make music together in thrall to impulse and intention. Using their time in Residence to play and pay tribute to the genres they love, in playful exploration, the six tracks on Icarus in Training conjure freedom, fun and finesse from the pair’s ongoing sequence of shared moments in sound, locking together in special combinations.
“I think about Icarus flying too close to the sun and what it would look like for him to have done some training.” - more eaze
Wendy and mari have only recently released their own inventive, heartfelt solo albums. Icarus in Training has the feel of exploratory EPs often released through the 90s and 2000s, stretching artists’ work into new territory with loose abandon. The opening track Suffer Less drops a blunted beat into blissful bedroom pop, raised on dreamy jangle and alternative summer-hit vibes.
Icarus in Training also features the first of a planned set of guests across the Residence releases. Jules Reidy lends their hypnotic, weaving guitar on tracks that drift and dissolve, often through a dub filter. Elsewhere, there’s spooked folksong (Turning) and blurry trip-hop riding a haze of starry guitar and electronics (Communion).
For all its movement, Icarus in Training stays alive to the pleasure of making music - a pleasure held by two people deeply in sync in a very particular way.
6 track album
