2024-09-29 13:11:45
from oliver
The morning of September 29, 2024
in album
Less than a year after my worries were left behind, the last line sprain – apparently ahead of the release of material for his new band project shearing sheep also big brown cow – Alexander Gregory Kent launches his first solo album under his own name: Teach dust reason.
„Hopefully My Name is Alexander Gregory Kent becomes a home for less “song” oriented projects like this (what is a song?), but we’ll seeLos Angeles man announces early, opening door to experimental perception behind 2023 highlights Lamb as an Icon or Three Hundred and Fifty XOXOXOS Alliance with My Dear Divine Spark) created two abstract, probably largely improvised, sound collages during a 55-minute performance.
In particular, the nearly 26-minute-long opening title track is excellent as it shifts from an unpleasant whimpering, shimmering noise to a strumming lo-fi ballad, resulting in Kent’s performance being closer to Michael Gila than he already is . Once the dreamy, shimmering piano grandeur looms behind the sporadic jazz cymbal playing, it takes on a magical beauty of its own.
About Sailor’s brief fascination with harmonicas and gnarly, sharp guitars in Delay/Reverb Nightmares twin peaks or dirty beachwinding Teach dust reason Then it continues mesmerizingly with crystalline, mysterious twinkles and ultimately beyond the astral curiosity, rising in density.
the following Heaven now However, Kent then transferred these post-rock tendencies almost entirely into drone and atmosphere, dissolving any songwriting into flat, formless forms.
At some points, a gesture of peaceful menace invites an onomatopoeic song as a texture into an otherwise purely instrumental backdrop, but then settles on a mysterious space odyssey as a séance-like stamina over monotonous organ tones. plan. The final six minutes offer a bit of a twist, in favor of an almost nervous synth murmur in a slow fade.
This completely unstructured, minimalist-focused approach also suits Kent, although it’s at least closer to traditional songwriting and more captivating to his sound. No matter what, the world allows itself sprain But to Americans, it’s exciting because it’s limitless!
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