G.S. Schray - First Appearance '2019

Tracks list

       And so our man from Akron returns. “First Appearance”
develops and expands upon the curious and strangely familiar soundworld of
2017’s “Gabriel,” with the Good Captain Schray luxuriating in
those expansive, warm waters that one associates with new age, balearic,
sophisti-pop, and art rock, adding to them potent distillations of his own
concocting. There is a nostalgic component to this music to be sure, with echoes
of Vini Reilly and The Blue Nile in the periphery, as well as forgotten
80’s studio projects where the engineer decided it was important to elide
the highs and lows to make a more comfortable space in the middle. But
Schray’s idiosyncrasies as a writer and player void any readymade
comparisons. Rather, with him at the helm we get sonic gems such as the loping
dub bass emerging from nowhere in the final act of the most excellently titled
“His Peculiar Livestreams” and the metallic resonances and wide open
spaces conjured in “The Cruel Psychic,” compositional sleights of
hand that make “First Appearance” a record to play and replay in an
effort to decode its odd and many mysteries.

Tracklist:
1.01 - G.S. Schray - Gabriel at the Prewindow (5:26)
1.02 - G.S. Schray - District Lizards (3:25)
1.03 - G.S. Schray - His Peculiar Livestreams (6:33)
1.04 - G.S. Schray - In Unsmiling Homage (3:37)
1.05 - G.S. Schray - The Cruel Psychic (5:20)
1.06 - G.S. Schray - Greyfield Envoy (4:04)
1.07 - G.S. Schray - Duskers, Decloaked (4:05)
1.08 - G.S. Schray - Several Wrong Places (6:36) 

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