Thurston Moore's latest solo work came out on Friday, a six track album released onto Bandcamp called Guitar Explorations Of Cloud Formations. All six tracks are long, clocking in between eight minutes and ten and a half. They were inspired by the skies and clouds of the British Isles, as seen by Thurston and his partner Eva Marie in England, Wales and Ireland. Thurston sketched the instrumental tracks out in 2025 backed by a drum machine ahead of a live performance in Dublin. There is plenty of noise in the six tracks especially the early ones, but the last three are instrumental and experimental guitar at its best, meditative and absorbing, repetition as an artform.
On the final track, Asperitas, nine minutes and forty seconds long, the drum machine kicks into life and Thurston's guitars play some lovely melody lines, melody lines countered by backwards shimmers, single notes rippling out as slow bursts of fuzz and feedback glide in and out. Asperitas clouds are rough and wavy, looking like a rough sea in the sky. Apparently, despite appearing ominous, they always dissipate without a storm forming.
Thurston's guitar playing ripples and flows, notes rising and falling as the drum machine keeps thudding away. It's a joy of a track, one to put on while you lose yourself in something or just sit staring into space- you can listen here.
The previous one, Cirrus, is too, a Velvets style riff repeated endlessly while two or three other guitar lines entwine themselves around it for ten minutes.
1 comment:
This is right up my street, even the noisier tunes. I'd absolutely go for a copy if it ever got a vinyl issue. Thanks for the intro Adam.
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