An absolute loner blooz evergreen floats back thru the window on its 2022 repress, ready to soundtrack particularly stark autumn winter seasons in the northern hemisphere. An out-n-out classiqqque.
Originally a CD self-release, now on its 2nd vinyl edition with Recital, ‘Airs’ is among the avant-blues journeyman’s most feted accomplishments, strumming sore nerves with a soothing, even cathartic quality that’s hard to shake once experienced. Its one of those records that will be by your side for as long as you need it, with acres of room and space in its exquisitely subtle multi-track recording that rewards many returns with its perpetually decaying licks of heartbreaking truth.
Like Vini Reilly slowed to near narcosis, but still with-it, the 19 ‘Airs’, including vinyl-only “lost track”, sketch a chiaroscuro play of light/dark, melody and shadow, where the negative space is practically as important and evocative as Connors’ instrumental tone poems. Half-heard melodic leitmotifs lace the album with a haunting lyrical quality that lilts and keens its moments of fleeting emotive ephemera and conveys so much more than words could ever hope to grasp.
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An absolute loner blooz evergreen floats back thru the window on its 2022 repress, ready to soundtrack particularly stark autumn winter seasons in the northern hemisphere. An out-n-out classiqqque.
Originally a CD self-release, now on its 2nd vinyl edition with Recital, ‘Airs’ is among the avant-blues journeyman’s most feted accomplishments, strumming sore nerves with a soothing, even cathartic quality that’s hard to shake once experienced. Its one of those records that will be by your side for as long as you need it, with acres of room and space in its exquisitely subtle multi-track recording that rewards many returns with its perpetually decaying licks of heartbreaking truth.
Like Vini Reilly slowed to near narcosis, but still with-it, the 19 ‘Airs’, including vinyl-only “lost track”, sketch a chiaroscuro play of light/dark, melody and shadow, where the negative space is practically as important and evocative as Connors’ instrumental tone poems. Half-heard melodic leitmotifs lace the album with a haunting lyrical quality that lilts and keens its moments of fleeting emotive ephemera and conveys so much more than words could ever hope to grasp.
An absolute loner blooz evergreen floats back thru the window on its 2022 repress, ready to soundtrack particularly stark autumn winter seasons in the northern hemisphere. An out-n-out classiqqque.
Originally a CD self-release, now on its 2nd vinyl edition with Recital, ‘Airs’ is among the avant-blues journeyman’s most feted accomplishments, strumming sore nerves with a soothing, even cathartic quality that’s hard to shake once experienced. Its one of those records that will be by your side for as long as you need it, with acres of room and space in its exquisitely subtle multi-track recording that rewards many returns with its perpetually decaying licks of heartbreaking truth.
Like Vini Reilly slowed to near narcosis, but still with-it, the 19 ‘Airs’, including vinyl-only “lost track”, sketch a chiaroscuro play of light/dark, melody and shadow, where the negative space is practically as important and evocative as Connors’ instrumental tone poems. Half-heard melodic leitmotifs lace the album with a haunting lyrical quality that lilts and keens its moments of fleeting emotive ephemera and conveys so much more than words could ever hope to grasp.