Devon Church - Strange Strangers (Holy Teal Vinyl)

Strange Strangers borrows its title from the Marxist eco-philosopher Timothy Morton: ‘The strangeness of strange strangers is itself strange, meaning the more we know about an entity the stranger it becomes.’ On Ephemera, Church seems to lament the mysterious unknowability of these objects of our deepest desires and fears, but he does so with defiant exuberance, his ecstatically strummed acoustic guitar threatening to go off the rails. “I was weary and you took me in your arms,”” he sings to the other (a lover, a god?). “”I couldn’t see you, but you held me like the light holds the dark.”

1. Slouching Toward Bethlehem
2. This Is Paradise (But Not for Us)
3. Bored of the Apocalypse
4. All Is Holy (A432)
5. Flash of Lightning in a Clear Blue Sky
6. Ephemera
7. Winter”s Come
8. Since I Fell
9. Deer Park