Much of Krieger’s new LP was recorded with drummer, William Alexander, and her bassist Kevin Copeland and guitarist, Jacob Drab. The full band bring a heightened sense of drama to the album’s arrangements, which contrasts the quieter approach of Krieger’s previous LP. There are noisy interludes, jazz-inflected discursions, impactful stops and starts, and occasional spaces for Krieger to stretch out her impressive vocal range. This is most prominent on the dazzling climax of ‘Came,’ an album standout that provides one of the most arresting moments in Krieger’s catalog to date.

Krieger says of the track: “This song is about depression and feeling stuck in destructive patterns. It’s about wanting to connect with something outside of yourself and giving in to that impulse.”

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‘Into Eternity’ introduces a new stylistic wrinkle, taking on a sprechgesang narration over an uneasy guitar motif. In a stream of consciousness delivery, Krieger presents a series of seemingly disparate vignettes – the chaos of a New York street, a memory of an interaction with a grieving ex-boyfriend, a homeless woman, a butterfly – and pulls at the common threads that connect them. Like much of the album, the song is invested in transfiguring the commonplace; examining events big and small and in doing so trying to take hold of their significance.

Krieger says of the track: “This song is an observation of menial and major moments, and how they all fit together in a chaotic world; every individual has their own path, their own story, though we all move through it together under the same sky. For better or for worse. It’s about looking for brightness where there is darkness.”

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It was in the months following the fire that Krieger wrote much of Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine, her second full-length album with Double Double Whammy, a collection of 12 songs that pick at the fragile membrane between life and death.

Krieger’s 2023 album, I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane, was a major breakthrough for her. That album (and its follow up b sides collection from 2023) hewed more closely to the domestic spaces of city and mind, however Krieger describes her newest work as “more outward looking, more questioning. These songs,” she says, “are obviously extremely personal. But they also sucked the whole world in.”

Now, Krieger is sharing her first single from the new album (out September 13), a track called ‘Never Arriving’. ‘Never Arriving,’ is a fitting lead single, as the song exemplifies the evolution of Krieger’s writing and sound on her new record and features a lyric from which the album’s title is derived. Performed by a full band composed of drummer, William Alexander, bassist Kevin Copeland, and guitarist, Jacob Drab, the song is thrilling in its compactness. Alluding to biology, sex and death in a series of sharp phrases, the song manages to address a whole worldview in a few short lines.

Krieger says of the track: “In this song I imagine a world without violence, or possessiveness, where we keep moving through life, for the sake of wonder and curiosity, not for the sake of attainment, or arrival. I think the true points of arrival are birth and death, and everything in between, all of the turmoil and fighting, are the makings of our own corrupted souls. It’s a song begging for softness, in a world that can feel so harsh.”

Art Of The Unseen Infinity Machine:

1. Roosevelt Ave
2. Never Arriving
3. Came
4. Burning Wings
5. I’m So Happy I Cannot Face Tomorrow
6. Over and Out
7. Into Eternity
8. Interlude for the Undefined
9. Absolve
10. How Do You Sleep
11. One or the Other
12. Where You Want to Go
13. New Mexico

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