The third solo album, I Can t Sleep , from Ian Wayne is a low-key masterpiece that embraces classic pop with plenty of odd, disarming musical gestures.
Field Guides Ginkgo derives from an organic, indie-folk space that encourages a stream of consciousness and melodic lines seemingly plucked out of thin air.
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In the 1983 film
Sans Soleil, Chris Markerâs experimental documentary travelogue, a narrator relays a letter from a companion looking to understand âthe function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining.â It feels counterintuitive: How can absence be lined? But the music of Dan Knishkowyâs Adeline Hotel project feels in tune with that idea. On the gentle folk songs of last yearâs
Solid Love, Knishkowy allowed his voice to sink into the mix, letting lyrics get lost in a tide of guitar and percussion. The effect was to de-emphasize whole images in the service of soft-focus fragmentsâa trick that feels true to the logic of memory, which only ever crystallizes partially.