Kali Malone and Drew McDowall are releasing a collaborative album.
Titled Magnetism, it features five tracks, which the pair recorded together in just a matter of days. The collaboration was born from a decade-long friendship, during which both artists have witnessed first-hand each other’s artistic and personal evolution.
“We put trust in each other, in our own domains and our unique strengths,” they said in a joint statement about working on the record. They worked on the album spontaneously at McDowall’s Brooklyn studio. Taking the decision to impose certain limitations on how they worked, they programmed bespoke tunings on a monophonic modular synth patch and recorded performance takes without overdubs.
“Playing this music felt like singing, as I freely followed my internal voice,” Malone said. “I had been holding a lot of those melodies inside of me for so long.”
McDowall added: “The music is surprisingly accessible even though some of the timbres are extreme; it’s not foreboding or even opaque. We might even be dabbling with pop sentiments.”
Listen to lead track ‘The Sound In My Mind’ below.
Ideologic Organ will release Magnetism on November 7, 2025.
