KEXP called Desert Liminal's 2024 album Black Ocean "a collection of sweeping art-rock, cinematic shoegaze, and poetic dream-pop featuring a lush, enveloping sound." Desert Liminal is a team –– tight-knit, cooperative, and bound by a sterling trust in music’s ability to shine a light into the darkest depths. The Chicago band’s primary songwriter and vocalist Sarah Jane Quillin may be the heart of the project, but as such, she is a heart that beats for her bandmates Mallory Linehan and Rob Logan, and the underground scene that has cradled them all and provided a source of profound psychic exploration and a sense of purpose.