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The minimalist nature of Isaac Vallentin s
…, his third solo album, belies how thoughtful the Montreal-based singer-songwriter is with every element of his music. Stark, evocative cover art and lengthy, meticulously detailed (not to mention, immaculately written) liner notes are staples of Vallentin s work, both as a solo artist and with his side project, Regular Expression (cleverly abbreviated as RegEx). His penchant for obsessively fine-tuning his work has yielded intriguing results such as the two competing versions of his second solo album,
Amateur the initial 2018 version and a formerly scrapped version with a different mix and tracklist released in 2020 for a Japanese record label or the recent