“Holly Herndon's bleak, propulsive music toys with differing impulses: On the one hand, stand up, dance. On the other, retreat into a chair in the corner, shivering, nursing a deep, antisocial fear of all around you. As an MFA graduate in Electronic Composition who spent her teenage years DJing in Berlin, Herndon has mastered the art of inserting baleful suggestion into sleekly pulsing music: "Fade”
