Voids

Voids employs the vocal talents of Bill Callahan, Emily Cross, Adam Torres, and Julia Holter across twelve genre-fluid, yet impressively cohesive tracks that span baroque dream-pop, filmic ambient, raga-like drones, avant-country, and even spiritual jazz, all imbued with poetic heft and seared by the West Texas sun. It was beneath this same sun that Lapham lost both of his parents, mourned a withering relationship, and shouldered the fallout of the pandemic, turning his life into the rusted-out scraps he then used to build Voids from the ground up. There is no better narrator for Lapham's story than fellow Texas resident Bill Callahan, whose iconic delivery perfectly personifies the core themes of Voids. By the time Callahan appears, he does so over a saw-blade drone that sounds like machinery echoing off the corrugated steel walls of a nearby workshop, which then breaks open into a loose yet pained confluence of violin and upright bass that recalls Joe Henderson's 1974 spiritual jazz album The Elements. On 'Dreamless' the album crystallizes into it's most straight-ahead moment as Lapham trains his compositional lens on a brilliant piece of pop songwriting. Featured vocalist Adam Torres soars over John Mark's punctual arrangement of stomping drums and rapturous string-work to anthemic, and gently psychedelic consequence. Voids concludes with the pleasant clatter of 'Circles' wherein Lapham throws all his ingredients into a pot of celebratory catharsis. Drum sets collid

Tracks

1~1~Blue Star
1~2~When I Was In My Prime
1~3~Corpus
1~4~Love Is Only Dreaming
1~5~Dreamless
1~6~Don't You Go
1~7~Window Without A World
1~8~Void I: Uninvited
1~9~Void Ii: Memory
1~10~Void Iii: Father As A Child
1~11~Void Iv: Circles

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Old Fire
Release Date: 04 November 2022
Genre: Alternative
Label: WESTERN VINYL
Distributor: Rocket Group