Pure Pop Records

Justin Walter - Destroyer

Details

Format: Vinyl
Label: KRANKY
Rel. Date: 10/13/2023
UPC: 796441823710

Destroyer
Artist: Justin Walter
Format: Vinyl
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Formats and Editions

DISC: 1

1. Track 1
2. For Us
3. Track 3
4. Radio Contact
5. Track 5
6. Transitions
7. Track 7
8. Destroyer
9. Track 9
10. New Pads
11. Track 11
12. Fear 17
13. Track 13
14. Cliff The Cloud Catcher
15. Track 15
16. 1
17. Track 17
18. Track 18
19. 1002
20. 1
21. Inner Voices
22. 1
23. Slow Walkers

More Info:

The music of Justin Walter veers between nebulous and numinous, coaxed from the translucent tonalities of his signature instrument, the EVI (Electronic Valve Instrument). Destroyer, his latest, and third for Kranky, marks his most multifaceted work yet. Inspired by minimalistic urges (evading grandiosity, condensing scope, embracing spatial restraint) tempered with the drama of triptychs (becoming, destruction, aftermath), the album's eleven tracks thread a keening suite of aching, opaque beauty, traced in absence and breath.First begun in the the no man's land summer of 2020, Walter gradually amassed nearly two hours of demos, drafts, and ideas, then steadily whittled them to their essence. Destroyer enlists the sounds of a recently restored pump organ, adding pulses and quaking texture, but otherwise the album is a shimmering showcase of the EVI: miasmic, melodic, intuitive, infinite. It's music of fraught devotion and uneasy peace, questing yet languorous, forever rapt and untethered.
        
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