I’m diligently working my way through Confessions, Saint Augustine’s exhausting chronicle of his conversion to Christianity in the fourth century. Does Spring Hide Its Joy, Kali Malone’s new three-hour set of drones, provides ideal accompaniment. I encountered a relevant passage as a particularly harsh phase of sound developed. “As for the present,” Augustine wrote, “If it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time but eternity.” Malone and her collaborators Stephen O’Malley and Lucy Railton capture a state of immutable limbo with Does Spring Hide Its Joy.
