REVIEWS
REBECCA FOON Waxing Moon Constellation
Even at first listen, it’s undeniable that Waxing Moon, Rebecca Foon the composer and musician behind Saltland and Esmerine (and former long-standing member of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra) – first eponymous album is an exploration of an incredibly emotional soundscape and intimacy. Waxing Moon is an immersive experience, piano-based instrumentals and Foon’s cello and haunting voice are the light and strength in the album’s delicate vulnerability, elements that are rarely so well conveyed on a record. The album’s arrangements are uniformly beautiful, and some of Foon’s close collaborators and guests including Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire) and Mishka Stein (Patrick Watson), Sophie Trudeau (Godspeed You Black Emperor), Jace Lasek (The Besnard Lakes) and Patrick Watson as co-vocalist on the album’s standout track “Vessels” just helped to add consistency and to the album’s saccharine. A stunning album, balanced between intimacy and elegance that demands your full attention and devotion. FAUSTO CASAIS
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Companion Rises Drag City
SCOTT NHAT KIM
Six Organs of Admittance is back with a new record. Three years after the brilliant Burning the Threshold, Ben Chasny brings a new energy and fresh palette of songs to this new venture. Companion Rises is, in a way, a return to Six Organs older sound formula, but Chesny’s innate ability to bring moods and sounds altogether provides the listener a pathway to a torchlight set of songs that makes us navigate between an accessible edge where the use of synthetizer 91