It Is All an Illusion is the fifth album from Chicago-based artist Diane Marie Kloba. Here are some things people have said about her previous work: "Much avant-garde music shares with this album a cultivated naïveté in the way it presents its materials, thrust directly at the listener like the gifts of a child: the crucial difference is that in most cases this is a mediated and ironic strategy, a knowing and fundamentally defensive measure. In Kloba’s case her approach represents a committed and heartfelt search for the best expression of her endearingly positive meanings. " —Oliver Arditi "...something not bound by style descriptions or by musical conventions ... the restless zeal for experimentation in this artist's work never allows anything predictable or conventional to settle on it before the music escapes once again, bidding the listener to follow only as a sonic explorer... Kloba plays with sound, and sometimes it even plays back." —Mark Whitby, Unwashed Territories "…a free-spirited strangeling who writes and performs wry, ramshackle avant pop … its guilelessness is its charm … Her peculiar wordplay is abstract on first listen, but eventually reveals a guardedly hopeful worldview … a warm, weird, spirited offering from an unabashedly nerdy innovator." —WZRD Blog "…a higher art form than we are mostly used to … Not a cliché or pop pandering bullshit melody or guitar line to be found … refreshing, so non-narcissistic." —Your Imaginary Friend, KZSU