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Eight years on from his last solo release, New York poet and songwriter Cheval Sombre (real name Chris Porpora) returns with Time Waits for No One, a collection of spaced-out ballads that aims to encase listeners in a sonic sanctuary. By no means a creation of the pandemic, but somehow fitting to the times all the same, the record is an homage to slowing down, to encountering the world without rush or expectation. Written over many years, the record comprises eight original songs and a dream-like cover of Townes Van Zandt’s ‘No Place To Fall’. The music is anchored by Porpora’s hypnotic vocals alongside simple open-tuned acoustic guitar, encircled by keyboards, strings and cosmic effects. Gentle and repetitive, the songs have a way of bleeding into each other, running with ideas for longer than might be expected, so the listener might lose track of where the song began and when it might end. ....
Cheval Sombre is a difficult artist to pin down. New album Time Waits For No One is his first solo release in over eight years, and it finds the songwriter once more embarking on a subtle yet stubborn period of evolution. Produced by Sonic Boom, the new record has folk tones, while also existing in a kind of sub-zero fug, its glacial movements recalling some of Spiritualized s narcotic hymns. Taken from the incoming record, new song Curtain Grove has a chilling sense of beauty, its pensive introspective carrying an opaque psychedelia. âThings come to a close, the night comes on, curtains will be drawn, a moment of reflection before retiring,â he comments. âThere is a lucid moment just before sleep, where things are clear as glass, and âCurtain Groveâ is just that â the past orchestrated with whatâs to come, crystallized in sweeps of strings, memories of innocence echoing.â ....
Head below for this week s reviews. ALBUM OF THE WEEK #1: Guided by Voices - The Styles We Paid For (Guided by Voices Inc) The unstoppable Bob Pollard lets fly the third GBV record of 2020 made in quarantine, rocks the same Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. That s the old motto of the United States Postal Service, but it works for Guided by Voices, too. Bob Pollard has records to make and release, and nothing is going to stop him. Certainly not a global pandemic. The original idea for Guided by Voices third album of 2020 when Pollard wrote the songs back in February, was that it would be recorded live to analogue tape and would be called ....
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