Description
2021 repress
Bill Orcutt”s eponymous record — his first solo electric studio album — shocks with its space and sensitivity.
– Orcutt”s track selection mirrors his obsession with American popular song in its most banal manifestations, as radically reimagined via acoustic guitar on 2013”s Twenty Five Songs 7″” box set, and A History of Every One (EMEGO 173CD/LP, 2013).
– Many of the songs from those two releases are here — but stretched into new arrangements that explore the upper regions of the guitar neck, and lighting up new corners of each arrangement with a sensitivity born from years of reinterpretation.
– With its deep-space beauty, harmonic complexity, and dark dissonance, Bill Orcutt is a stunning landmark in Orcutt”s form-destroying trajectory.
