Daniel Bachman’s latest album takes its name from a tune that’s been sung by Songs Of The Pioneers, Billy Bragg & Wilco and the Carter Family with Johnny Cash. In the song (sometimes called “When The Roses Bloom Again”), a dying soldier looks beyond his imminent demise to a moment when he’ll be reunited with his sweetheart. That might sound bleak, but next to Bachman’s last two records, it’s an optimistic sentiment. On 2021’s Axacan, he contemplated the cultural catastrophe that led to European folks like himself occupying Virginia; last year’s Almanac Behind plunged the listener into a sonic depiction of climate disaster. By contrast, the prospect of reunion after death is downright rosy.
The fingerstyle experimentalist’s new album bends guitar, mouth bow, field recordings, and electronic detritus into into vast tapestries of pliant drone
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