Lindsey Stirling w/ PVRIS

Few artists embody boundless creativity quite like Lindsey Stirling. Not only a multi-award-winning musician known for her genre-bending virtuosity on electronic violin, she’s endlessly dazzled audiences with her extraordinary talents as a dancer—an element she brings to the stage as part of her spectacular live show, touring with a stunning frequency and continually selling out iconic venues all around the world. Also, a New York Times bestselling author (and creator of her own comic book), the platinum-selling star felt compelled to push her boundaries even further for her seventh full-length effort, ultimately embracing a whole new level of freedom in her songwriting. A visionary meditation on inner wisdom, personal strength, and the ever-shifting nature of identity, Duality arrives as Stirling’s most sonically daring and emotionally complex album date. Made with producers/co-writers like Graham Muron (Thirty Seconds to Mars, Skrillex) and Lucky West (Walk the Moon, Dreamers), Duality encompasses a dozen songs showcasing Stirling’s refined musicality and gift for sculpting deeply expressive melodies. But while the album’s first half centers on a grandiose and elaborately composed sound informed by Celtic music and other global influences, its latter half leans toward a boldly original form of left-of-center pop. To that end, side A includes such tracks as “Eye Of The Untold Her,” a gloriously epic piece produced by Mako (a musician/songwriter/producer whose credits include co-producing top-selling releases from video-game giant Riot Games) and co-written with Steve Mazzaro (a composer who’s worked with the legendary Hans Zimmer to arrange and produce the music for the Oscar winner’s world tours). Meanwhile, side B spotlights Stirling’s pop sensibilities on songs like the luminous “Inner Gold” (featuring alt-pop artist Royal & the Serpent) and “Survive” (on which Walk off the Earth vocalist Sarah Blackwood joins in for an interpolation of Gloria Gaynor’s disco…