While most bios refer to her previous work with bands like Retsin and the Sonora Pine, these days you’re far more likely to be familiar with her dealings with Ida. She put out an EP of songs penned with Dan Littleton during the meteor showers of 2002, and has since toured with the full band. But while she’s very much a part of the slowcore scene made popular by the likes of Ida and Low, O’Neil’s solo material is somehow different. Even from her first album, Peregrine, there’s an arid, barren quality to her music not found in the palette of her more popular peers. You Sound, Reflect is the musical equivalent of a never-ending night sky over the wild deserts at the end of the world, and there’s not much out there quite like it today.
