Isomonstrosity

isomonstrosity is the sole album released by the joint venture of Ellen Reid, Johan Lenox, and Yuga Cohler. The album artist is officially listed as "isomonstrosity", which is composed of the three of them. The collaborative, avant-pop album was released on November 18, 2022, via Brassland Records on cassette tape and in digital format. The album features collaborative guest appearances from Zacari, Danny L Harle, Empress Of, 645AR, Danny Brown, Vic Mensa, and Kacy Hill.

Bringing both Reid's classical and synth-based compositions to the project, the critically acclaimed vocal chamber music album employs the modern production techniques and aesthetics of hip-hop, assembling contributions from a wide array of artists into a satisfying and varied final work.

Inspiration, background and approach
"isomonstrosity was inspired in part by the mood and the constraints of the Covid-19 quarantines of 2020-21, recorded separately in pieces, with every musician working in isolation. The goal was to make a vocal chamber music album using the same process as a contemporary rap album, assembling contributions from a wide array of artists then reorganizing them endlessly into a final work. They first commissioned excerpts from established new music composers—Bryce Dessner, Marcos Balter, Nina C Young, Wang Lu, Carlos Simon, and themselves [isomonstrosity, the group/trio]—which were then recorded one track at a time by International Contemporary Ensemble. Next, the featured vocalists recorded parts inspired by those excerpts. Finally all of the music was chopped up and restructured, layered and collaged into a final album."

Reception
Hannah Jocelyn on Pitchfork described the album as "both tasteful and weirdly frustrating", giving it a rating of 6.0/10. Dominic Haley on Loud and Quiet rated it 8.0/10 and wrote that the authors "chart a trek across cinematic-sounding classical landscapes and fractured pop", resulting in "a record that simultaneously collapses genre lines and builds up whole new ones".

Track listing
All track listing information is sourced from the album's liner notes/credits. (Also see .)

Note: Digital download version has different tracklist: there is not "Intro" as track #1, and "Take Me Back - Edit" is track #12.

In addition to the above credits and the trio known as "isomonstrosity" (Ellen Reid, Johan Lenox, and Yuga Cohler), the album also adds the following general (i.e., non-track-specific) credits via its liner notes:

"Seen Studio"