On a daring new album, the singer-songwriter and guitar virtuoso examines happiness, love, and memory with a forensic curiosity.
Two distinct styles collide on a pair of intergenerational live recordings pitting the Buchla pioneer’s undulating sequences against the lo-fi techno producer’s scuffed textures.
Sampling gamelan, marimba, mbira, and other idiophones, Friedman summons a microtonal riot of weightless pings that disorients and delights in equal measure.
The UK songwriter reflects on faith and coming of age through a flickering patchwork of folk, nth-wave emo, and punched-in ad-libs that shows all the seams.