| Powders | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Eartheater |
| Cover: | Eartheater - Powders.jpg |
| Alt: | A photo of Eartheater lying on a beach on her stomach with her legs backwards over her head, with a small ornament dangling from her toes |
| Studio: | Sunset Sound, Hollywood, California, United States |
| Language: | English |
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| Prev Year: | 2020 |
| Next Title: | Aftermath |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
Powders is the fifth studio album by American experimental musician Eartheater. It was released September 20, 2023, via Chemical X under exclusive license to Mad Decent. It is a sister album to the upcoming album titled Aftermath, expected for release in 2024.
It was supported by the singles "Pure Smile Snake Venom" and "Chop Suey". The former single and "Crushing" feature music videos directed by Daniel Sannwald and Andrew Thomas Huang, respectively.
Online retailer Bandcamp spotlighted Powders as Album of the Day, with critic Andrew Parks writing that the music "finds much of its power in minimalism and making every last sound count" and that it is "an incredibly cohesive listen despite its moving parts and myriad co-producers". In The Fader, Raphael Helfand called the cover of System of a Down's "Chop Suey!" "tranquil" and wrote that it does the song justice. The Line of Best Fits Callum Foulds rated Powders a 9 out of 10, writing that the album "displays Eartheater’s talents for creating worlds of hyper-saturated textures and sounds" and is "is another masterwork and continues her steady ascension". Colin Lodewick of Pitchfork scored Powders a 7.5 out of 10, calling it a "radiant new album [that] explores love’s rapture within the confines of more traditional pop structures" and praising Eartheater's voice but criticizing that the structure of some songs holds back her singing. At that same site, Peyton Toups gave a positive review to "Crushing", calling it "a calming sea of trip-hop". Online streaming service Tidal published a spotlight on this album, with Gabriel Szatan calling the music a set "driven by a rhythmic pulse, with textural accents that twist like curlicues of smoke into inky air", with "more concentrated guitarwork than has ever been heard on a record of" Eartheater's. Editors at Clash Music listed this the 43rd best albums of the year.