Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith With London Contemporary Orchestra, Barbican Review (opens in new tab)

With a new album on the horizon, brought the London Contemporary Orchestra to the Barbican for a performance that balanced retrospective and reinvention. We were there to witness Smith push her sound from intimate electronics into rhythm-driven new territory. There is a version of this concert that goes badly. An artist whose reputation rests on intimate, slowly breathing electronics, paired with a full orchestra, performing new material the audience has not heard before: that is a lot of var...