Moscow�s Kedr Livanskiy (real name Yana Kedrina) confesses �Synthesiz- ers help me maximally feel the present moment.� Livanskiy was born into a shifting and critical time for Russia. The Soviet Union had exhausted and old values were anathematized because of reconstruction. A sense of displacement drove Kedr to find herself. She�s escaped reality repeatedly in her explorations into the imagery and ideas of romanticism, mythical and fairytale themes which visibly bleed throughout her work and espe- cially on her debut full-length �Ariadna�. The title track which was named after the Greek goddess, Adriane, debuted via THUMP who�ve described it �anchors its elegantly drifting shoegaze melodies with a knocking electro beat.� �Ariadna� marks a change in her recording approach: her critically acclaimed breakthrough EP �January Sun� was written and recorded com- pletely in Ableton, while �Ariadna� was written using the Roland SH-101, Roland Juno 106 and Korg Minilogue synthesizers, then mixed down in Ableton. According to Kedr, �This way, one gets into a flow of live inter- action, here and now, with the instrument.� There is a definite leap in production values this time around, but Kedr manages to keep true to her sound despite the greater polish and depth.