Waiting Room (album)

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Waiting Room
Kathryn Mohr - Waiting Room.jpg
Studio album by
Kathryn Mohr
ReleasedJanuary 24, 2025 (2025-01-24)
Genre Ambient pop [1]
Length46:02
Label The Flenser
Producer Kathryn Mohr
Kathryn Mohr chronology
Holly
(2022)		Waiting Room
(2025)
Singles from Waiting Room
  1. "Driven"
    Released: November 12, 2024
  2. "Elevator"
    Released: December 18, 2024
  3. "Take It"
    Released: January 14, 2025

Waiting Room is the debut studio album by American experimental musician and songwriter Kathryn Mohr. It was released on January 24, 2025, by The Flenser. [2] It features the singles, "Elevator", "Driven" and "Take It".

Contents

Background

Released three years after her 2022 EP, Holly, Waiting Room was written by Mohr in a concrete room in an abandoned fish factory in Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland. [3] [1] It consists of eleven songs ranging between two and six minutes each, with a total runtime of approximately forty-six minutes, and it was mixed and mastered by Nicholas Wilbur in Anacortes, Washington. Noted as an ambient pop album, it also incorporates elements of goth folk. [1] "Driven" was released as the lead single on November 12, 2024. [2] The second single, "Elevator", was released on December 18, 2024, and the third single, "Take It", was released on January 14, 2025. [4] [5]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Beats Per Minute 75%
Pitchfork 8.4/10

Pitchfork rated the album 8.4 out of ten and noted in its review of the album, "Throughout Waiting Room, the contrast between Mohr's sinister production and surprisingly gentle vocals bridges the eerie and the sublime, recalling Grouper by way of Maria BC, or even Julianna Barwick." [3] Beats Per Minute assigned it a score of "75 percent", stating "It shows its fondness for 90s lo-fi homerecording, but embellishes that with bloodless digital sounds and mixing-desk manipulation." [6] BrooklynVegan described it as "a collection of dark, crackling, slow-moving songs that usually find Kathryn singing over a guitar, a piano, or an ambient texture." [1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Kathryn Mohr.

Waiting Room track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Diver"3:20
2."Rated"3:15
3."Driven"4:35
4."Petrified"4:09
5."Take It"4:34
6."Elevator"3:38
7."Prove It"4:10
8."Horizonless"3:31
9."Cornered"5:17
10."Wheel"3:07
11."Waiting Room"6:26
Total length:46:02

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Sacher, Andrew (January 24, 2025). "Kathryn Mohr – Waiting Room (The Flenser)". BrooklynVegan . Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  2. 1 2 DeVille, Chris (November 12, 2024). "Kathryn Mohr Announces New Album Waiting Room: Hear "Driven"". Stereogum . Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  3. 1 2 Park, Sue (January 28, 2025). "Kathryn Mohr: Waiting Room". Pitchfork . Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  4. ↑ Pickard, Joshua (December 18, 2024). "Kathryn Mohr attempts to confront and combat the horrors of the world on "Elevator"". Beats Per Minute . Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  5. ↑ Chelosky, Danielle (January 14, 2025). "Kathryn Mohr Shares New Song "Take It": Listen". Stereogum . Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  6. ↑ Forstneger, Steve (January 29, 2025). "Album Review: Kathryn Mohr – Waiting Room". Beats Per Minute . Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  7. ↑ Waiting Room (Media notes). Kathryn Mohr. The Flenser.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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