For the Open Room by Louis Gardner - NX Records [NX26] FLAC download included with physical items
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For the Open Room

Louis Gardner

A 15 track art & progressive rock album (45m 37s) — released November 15th 2024 on NX Records

#rock #art-and-progressive-rock

London based songwriter Louis Gardner offers his first mixtape, released via Goldsmiths University imprint NX Records. On 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑢𝒑𝒆𝒏 π‘Ήπ’π’π’Ž, Gardner spirals artfully through outsider jazz, pop, folk and noise, landing sprawled in a territory all his own.

Tangled riffs and strange structures form the terrain for intimate, un-rugged vocals to float above. Starting life like brisk journal entries or misshapen doodles in digital fuzz, Gardner's stories bloom with stop-start tension, oscillating between tender and guttural, crude and complex.

𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑢𝒑𝒆𝒏 π‘Ήπ’π’π’Ž captures a flow state of ideas, traces and associations - from the bubbling jazz congruence of "It's Hard", to plucked maximalist fragility on "Ten Zithers". Wrapping up with "Body Left in the Snow", Louis reveals mightily undulating piano chops - leaving us to wonder what else is withheld, and what might appear next.

Recommended for fans of Jandek, Mount Eerie, Arthur Russell.
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