Lindsey Buchleitner

The seventh studio album from acclaimed musician Lindsey Stirling celebrates the delicate, yet beautiful, nature of duality – the inner battle of fearlessness and self doubt we all experience. Exploring two distinct styles of music for each side of the album, Duality evokes a sense of magic; encouraging the listener to acknowledge the struggle but to always believe in the limitless version of themselves.

After a first album dedicated to Weill, Zemlinsky and Korngold (Alpha272), Kate Lindsey explores here her other repertoire of choice, the music of the eighteenth century. In partnership with Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo, she has recorded three cantatas focusing on the myth of Ariadne, abandoned on the island of Naxos after helping Theseus kill the Cretan Minotaur by giving him a ball of thread so that he could find his way back through the labyrinth. Alessandro Scarlatti's Ebra d amor fuggia (1707) relates Ariadne's flight, drunk with love , alongside Theseus, for whom she expresses her tenderness in the magnificent aria Pur ti stringo .

Yet another well-crafted and beautiful collection of energized pop-violin virtuosity, Duality returns Lindsey Stirling back to basics after 2019's epic, chart-topping concept album Artemis. Featuring input from Mako, Graham Muron (30STM, Skrillex), Lucky West (Walk the Moon), and composer Steve Mazzaro, the set features all the magical wonder and theatrical scope that fans have come to expect from Stirling, who excels at this form of rousing, emotionally charged instrumental wonder. Plucked strings, handclaps, and a storm of choir singers elevate the sweeping "Eye of the Untold Her," while mystical echoes and Stirling's recognizable war cry punctuate the towering "Evil Twin" as a deep drop injects hip-hop/electronic heft into the mix.

The seventh studio album from acclaimed musician Lindsey Stirling celebrates the delicate, yet beautiful, nature of duality – the inner battle of fearlessness and self doubt we all experience. Exploring two distinct styles of music for each side of the album, Duality evokes a sense of magic; encouraging the listener to acknowledge the struggle but to always believe in the limitless version of themselves.