"Dear Laika is the moniker of the classically trained musician Isabelle Thorn. As a child in the South of England, Thorn sang in church choirs and listened to classical music, two influences that have followed her to adulthood. Today, the 23 year old sounds equally inspired by the austere romanticism of post-minimalist composers like John Adams and Max Richter as she does modern glitch artists like Vladislav Delay and Markus Popp of Oval. There’s a touch of avant-pop in her music too, like if the Guggenheim commissioned late-career Kate Bush to write an experimental opera." - Pitchfork