Sam Gendel & Marcella Cytrynowicz - AUDIOBOOK (Cassette)AUDIOBOOK, the new project from prolific multi instrumentalist Sam Gendel and visual artist filmmaker Marcella Cytrynowicz, is comprised of 13 alphabetically named tracks and corresponding illustrations that feel like dispatches from outer space, or unearthed ancient runes. At points melodic and cartoonish and at others glitching and somewhat unnerving, its a visual work and instrumental album rooted in a strange in between, in a shadowy and vivid

leaping from a pop music framework into the wilder unknown

Recorded with a small cast of collaborators (including Mountain Goats multi-instrumentalist Matt Douglas

Sylvan Esso was just a shot-in-the dark of musical chemistry gone right

” which opens with electronic warble around Meath’s voice as a simple beat behind her eventually yields to a deep synth wobble

a window flung open to let the summer air in

Where 2015’s Southland Mission illuminated for listeners what Phil Cook hears in his head

” Sanborn says

and feels at home with the jagged edges of Cytrynowicz’s illustration

Reveries in the Rift is the home Westerlund welcomes us into

even as the band continues to evolve and becomes amorphous

we did some rough mixes of the session to ensure we’d have something to listen and react to over the next months

has now spent three decades gleaning lessons from folk musicians and avant-garde icons