Cassette
Sixteen years since his last solo release, multi-instrumentalist John Clyde-Evans (of Hood) returns with a collection of lullabies steeped in quiet emotional intensity and (ec)static nocturnal dissolution.
In a sense, the tracks hover around the aesthetic that defined his celebrated [for ht/rp/j&s] LP from 1998, a sound that marries harmonic beauty with a modal elegance. The use of muted electric guitar is a nod to those early influences that informed his work with the band Hood, the final result he describes as an appeal to the ‘Purcell heads among the twenty or so remaining Gentle Despite fans’.
(words TN)
