Page McConnell, 'Maybe We're the Visitors'
(Keyed Records, vinyl, digital) From an obsidian void of silence, blips of light come to life. A sort of acid-trip take on tubular bells drifts out of the dark like an alarm clock going off in a dream, followed soon by the soft wash of synthesizers. I release a breath I didn't realize I was holding as "Radio Silence," the first track on Page McConnell's new record, drifts by with all the austere loneliness of the last glacier slipping into the sea. A haunting exploration of solitude, Maybe We're the Visitors is something of a sonic departure for McConnell, who is best known as one-four...