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𝘼 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚, 𝙪𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙙𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙇𝙚𝙚 𝘽𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝘿𝙚𝙙𝙚𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙪𝙩 𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙃𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨, 𝙙𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙞𝙗𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧’𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙍𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙖 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙙, 𝙊𝙊𝘽𝙀 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨, 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙.
American Zen finds its centre in quivering, pensive drones and fractured small sounds, but is rent with an oceanic sense of scale, deploying splashes of distant percussion, extreme panned vocal snippets and slowly escalating harmonic space perfused by crackling radiowaves and that intangible timbre of an old TV turned on somewhere, but you can’t quite pick out its location.
- It unfolds at a glacial pace in five parts, crossing lines/waves comparable with Chino Amobi & Rabit’s ultraviolent mixtape, the nostalgic Americana yearn of Torn Hawk, and even The Caretaker’s hallowed aether zones; perpetually out of reach, submerged or hardly there, but feeling as though he’s right there, breathing quietly in the background and watching you listen.Excellent stuff, perhaps the most interesting of Bannon’s releases we’ve heard so far.