It's a mood, windswept, verdant and decidedly English. William Westerman had his sound figured out from his first EP, a lush brand of nuanced folk that has drawn comparisons to Arthur Russell and Nick Drake and also feels informed by Talk Talk and Massive Attack. Second album of expertly crafted glitchy folk from this talented UK singer-songwriter You can imagine Jarmusch making videos for every song here, but no need - SQÜRL's music projects movies in your mind. Jarmusch and Logan also brought in Anika and Charlotte Gainsbourg to provide vocals on "She Don't Wanna Talk About It" and "John Ashbery Takes A Walk," respectively, while Marc Ribot provides signature guitarwork on "Garden Of Glass Flowers" and "Il Deserto Rosso." John Ashbery is a touchstone here, too, with Gainsbourg and Jarmusch providing poetic narratives, like on "The End of the World" where Jim paints a vivid portrait of youth running wild in a post-apocalyptic suburban landscape in his deadpan downtown vocal cadence. For it they found a partner in crime in Randall Dunn, who has worked with Sunn O))), Boris, and Earth and knows how to make things sound deafeningly loud yet soft and slow. The second long-player from this duo, who first got together to score Jarmusch’s movie The Limits of Control, is a further exploration of spectral blues and hazy stoner rock, with elements of trip hop and spoken word in the mix. SQÜRL are big on atmosphere, setting an eerie mise-en-scène with beautiful, droning, ambience. It's bit hackneyed to call the musical project of filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and his producing partner and sometimes film-score-composer Carter Logan "cinematic," but it's also undeniable. Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan enlist Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anika and Marc Ribot for their second album of atmospheric rock Tropicalia has been a building block in Stereolab's sound almost from the start, and Modern Cosmology don't stray too far from the space age bachelor pad, but there's less emphasis on analogue synths, and arrangements are spare, spacious and lonely. The pretty and melancholic "Making Something," "Le Train Ne Passera Pas," and the especially excellent title track and closer "A Time to Blossom" have lots of room to swim around in, as they set a deliberate end of summer - or end of something - mood for what is Sadier's best post-lab record to date. The group released the Summer Long EP in 2017 and are now back six years later with their debut album. Marcelo brought along his brother, Vincente, and the rest of Mombojó, they hit it off instantly, and Modern Cosmology were born. Stereolab singer Lætitia Sadier met Brazilian group Mombojó in the mid-2010 when the band's Marcelo Machado lent her some of his amps to use on her Brazilian tour - with the condition he got to meet her, one of his idols. Stereolab's Lætitia Sadier and Brazilian group Mombojó team again for a second record of spare, sad tropicalia psych. Modern Cosmology - What Will You Grow Now? (Duophonic)
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