Wednesday, July 5, 2017

#2505 Chuck Johnson - Balsams

There's so much to love here.

The pedal steel of some ascendant trinity of Sigur Ros, William Tyler, and KLF circa Chill Out [[so much for no-namedropping!]], the washy synths, the patient sense of space. On paper, I love the plan. But somehow in the execution it doesn't quite transcend, doesn't reach the highs of any of those bands, feeling slightly tense, slightly taut, simmering in new tensions instead of washing them away.

It's hard to fine _just_the_right_tones_, and I'm happy to have another pony in that stable, but it comes up just short 3.5/5

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