Flood the Engine - EP Review

Lars Haur, On the Fringes of Sound

The latest release from Kate Sattler's Sweet Freeze project is a textural joy of layered guitars and vocals with strange found sounds placed in an otherworldly sounding lo-fi format. Filled with soft and sweet vocals layered over a plethora of equally soft guitar textures, Sweet Freeze provides us a unique indie-folk electronic experience that is also not afraid to break the soft and sweet approach when it so desires. This can be heard on the opening track as it starts ever so soft and quiet, yet with a strange sense of determination, only later to explode into a bit of distorted vocals and guitar noise until abruptly returning to the soft intro we heard early on. Truly an intriguing foray into more experimental forms of indie and folk.

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Walter Chaw, film critic

Check out Kate’s extraordinary music. Her “Flood the Engine” EP is glorious: moody, Sonic Youth-inflected textures and ethos. She’s fucking brilliant.

Nat Lyon, Experimental Trash

This is how you make great music. The Flood the Engine EP is brilliant.