Album Evaluation: Invoice Brovold | Ghost Music

Invoice Brovold | Ghost Music

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I have been digging again into Lester Bangs of late, and his crusty writing has been making me need to pull a fair crustier Nick Tosches transfer and never hearken to this report earlier than reviewing it. If anybody might associate with that, I’ve a sense it is veteran experimentalist and self-proclaimed (at the least by a 2018 album title) Celebrity Invoice Brovold. However I did not begin my very own rock-crit profession till after Bangs had died, so I simply do not have that temerity, a lot much less fearlessness, in me. That is good, as a result of Brovold’s newest adventurous instrumental disc is stuffed with the “horrid blare”—albeit of a pastoral bomb-scape nature—that Lester cherished.

Name it Metallic Machine Music for cows. Brovold—totally on metal guitar himself and joined right here on lengthy, pandemic-weary tracks like “Tardigrade Social gathering,” “Troll!,” and “My Final Conversations with Eric” by Johnny Evans, Adriana Camacho Torres, Mary Alice, and Mark Ormerod—is a multi-faceted musical and visible artist who first discovered his area of interest in Bangs-era New York no wave circles. He additionally made large, but generally contrarily quiet, noise in Detroit with Larval. Today, he has a studio within the Hudson Valley. He assays, together with his small, gossamer ensemble on Ghost Music, a Harry Partch/Terry Riley model of droning, but entrancing, ambient Americana each bit as haunting because the title may counsel, particularly on the epic, album-length nearer “I Can Nonetheless Hear Nico.” It makes, like Shirley Jackson, for shimmering, however fairly sleepless nights.