British composer Isobel Waller-Bridge turns her gaze inward on her new album Objects, a project that explores the act of radical stillness. Written over four years in the rare quiet moments her busy career allowed, the album celebrates the overlooked beauty in a world moving too fast. Waller-Bridge invites listeners to experience the music not as something objective, but as a personal, mysterious response to the world around us. “Objective Contemplation” is one of the album’s simplest pieces — and one of its most lovingly crafted.

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