STACK #204 Oct 2021

MUSIC FEATURE

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SAM TESKEY STUNS SOLO

S amTeskey's debut solo album shimmers with canny spontaneity, coiling round your inner ears like the sun creeping up one of the gum-laden hills that surround his Warrandyte home studio (where the LP was recorded). Primarily livetracked ,Teskey draws incredible textures out of his Neil Young-esque guitars, while the organ is unlike anything we've heard before: its sound shifts and glints with extreme, sensitive beauty, like rain droplets in a warm wind. If that's too many hokey bucolic similes for you, consider this: The birds that cry in the background of Til The River were not spliced into the track, but actually flew overhead at that precise

Cycles by Sam Teskey is out Oct 8 via Ivy League Records.

F rom the very first droning and warped guitars, we're welcomed into the warm embrace of My Morning Jacket’s self-titled, ninth record. It's an exercise in refining and expanding a sound that is hard to imitate, but beautiful and full to hear. Every moment on this record feels tumultuous and striking – taking hints from Edward Sharpe, Alabama Shakes and The Flaming Lips – with individual songs becoming grand and sweeping brushstrokes across the album’s landscape. Never afraid to let a song dip and swell until it reaches its full potential, the Kentucky five-piece have crafted a record for long, lazy summer afternoons, when the only thing on your mind is keeping your skin from catching too much sun. Jacqui Picone MY MORNING JACKET SELF-TITLE WITH STYLE My Morning Jacket by My Morning Jacket is out Oct 22 via ATO/ PIAS.

moment in the song, while Teskey was recording a take outside. Needless to say, amongst sauntering jams and spectral details, this album's connection to nature comes from all manner of angles and we cannot wait to hear it on vinyl, i.e. without the artificial gaps that denote a

track has finished and the next has begun. The realities of commercial formatting might dictate that these gorgeous songs be labelled and separated, but they'll shine brightest when they're allowed to flow in unbroken, liquid form. ZKR

PA TS I II Part I compiled by Mick Harvey

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