ORCUTT, Bill - How To Rescue Things - Vinyl (LP)
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Bill ORCUTT
How To Rescue Things
Palilalia US
LP Cat: 843563 181850Rel: 3 Mar 25
Post Rock/Experimental Side 1 - Track 1. Sanctuary Side 1 - Track 2. Not Reconciled Side 1 - Track 3. How To Rescue Things Side 2 - Track 1. Old Hamlet Side 2 - Track 2. Pylon Pylon! Side 2 - Track 3. Requiem In Dust Side 2 - Track 4. The Wild Psalms
Experimental guitarist Bill Orcutt made a hearty appeal to analogue living on How To Rescue Things (2024), a new album from the artist forming part of a groundswell of interest in his work, affectionally dubbed his "rediscovery years". Taking its cue from Charlie Parker With Strings (1950), this record is a standout among many; for the first time, a string section is used, sore-thumbing an oeuvre otherwise untainted by horsehair. The strings are not mere kitsch but serve as a platform for Orcutt's intricate improvisations: 'Not Reconciled' blends quirky optimism with melancholy, embodying the spirit of a defiant, joyful mortality, and his complex playing, particularly on 'Requiem in Dust' and 'The Wild Psalms', draws inspiration from avant-gardists such as Sharrock. Dulcet pad sonics blend paradoxically well with a sense of modern horror, one which always seems to ready-packaged with abstracted, reverb-doused blues colossi such as this record. The sense is of a bindingly complex American life in need of urgent downshifting; a window into sanctity is teased, perhaps, on the choir-backed 'Requiem In Dust'.
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