State River Widening - Cottonhead
State River Widening eschew the dreary modern trappings of digital processing, preferring to focus on a cinematic amalgam of acoustic guitar melodies, sparse drum kit rhythms, electronic piano elegies, and elegant string arrangements. Marimbas ring like summer rain during "Desertesque;" a field recording of a street in Valencia, Spain, blows through "Knifegrinder's Song;" and, during "Lowlands," the voice of '60s folk singer Anne Briggs steals into the studio like an eidolon of an old aunt. Cascading piano chords in "Cottonwood" evolve into a rollicking drum and guitar duet like the high desert vision of Scenic as touched by Boards of Canada. The textured instrumentals of Cottonhead provide unadulterated escape from the crush of DSP savagery and the confusion of fractured time signatures.
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