First press, limited to 150 copies
Australian multi-instrumentalist and composer Mitchell J.G. Reynolds recalibrates his long-running Bluetung project as Glen Rey for this debut record with Brierfield Press, the same label you'll remember for bringing that wonderful Hana Stretton LP into the world. Of That Which We Cannot Speak... feels very much of its time and place, a product of the current moment in Australian underground music in which we're increasingly seeing artists move towards more avant interpretations of folk, ambient, drone and so forth. It's an understanding given further creedence for the added contributions from members of Troth, Warm Currency and Other Joe, though the sounds Reynolds conjures here feels less connected to those acts and more the cosmic pastoralism of Stargaze Inferno, Unchained or Mark Gomes. Nearly-entirely instrumental and built almost exclusively around acoustic guitar, Glen Rey also seems to carry a torch for the kind of impressionist emotionalism we might associate with Vini Reilly's playing, Steve Hiett's lonely-as-a-cloud Down On The Road By The Beach, or in the case of 'Clarissa', the one track Reynolds does sing on, and 'It Doesn't Get Easier', the strung-out intensity of Mark Kozelek. It proves a remarkable re-introduction from an artist most may have been forgiven for missing. And the Oz underground continues to be forever giving.
FFO: Stargaze Inferno, Durutti Column, Red House Painters, Troth, Mark Gomes
