Wiesenfeld has been recording original music for more than 15 years,
most notably under the moniker Baths. Will has had albums,
collaborations and remix work released on dozens of independent
labels, and toured around the world. He maintains a philosophy of
keeping his work as personal as possible, with the majority of his
music created in his home studio. For his fourth full-length album
Gut, Will embraces a new personal ethos of writing "from the stomach"
versus writing from the heart. "I'm sketching my strongest and most
pervasive feelings out quickly and treating their roughness as gospel,
then exploring them in greater detail with the added sheen of time and
perspective." The most impressive Baths album of Wiesenfeld's career,
Gut spans a breathtaking spectrum of lacerating hopelessness to
lustful joy, inspired by the more unforgiving oeuvre of post-punk and
noise music, and any music that works its magic through blunt force
rather than careful introspection. -- Fashion Club is the recording
alias of Los Angeles artist Pascal Stevenson, who originally conceived
of the project while on tour with her band Moaning. Listening to
Fashion Club’s self-produced second album A Love You Cannot Shake
feels like being caught in the crossfire of a profound beam of light.
You can’t help but feel both enlivened and exposed as its aberrant
synth lines, artful strings and disfigured guitars swell into
larger-than-life crescendos, which evoke a divine yet probing
spotlight. You can bask in the glow of a towering light with
self-assured poise, but there’s also something inherently
uncomfortable about an imposing light source—revealing yourself to
onlookers (and oneself) comes with varying levels of anxiety and
self-doubt. This is the tension at the heart of A Love You Cannot
Shake, a record of lush radiance and otherworldly scope, with each
track functioning as its own twinkling, transportive realm.
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