Destroyer, by JUSTIN WALTER

Destroyer

by JUSTIN WALTER

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1.	For Us 02:38	buy track
2.	Radio Contact 06:11	buy track
3.	Transitions 02:14	buy track
4.	Destroyer 03:58	buy track
5.	New Pads 05:22	buy track
6.	Fear 17 01:14	buy track
7.	Cliff the Cloud Catcher 03:06	buy track
8.	11.27 02:38	buy track
9.	1002 01:29	buy track
10.	Inner Voices 08:02	buy track
11.	Slow Walkers 06:13	buy track

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The music of Justin Walter veers between nebulous and numinous, coaxed from the translucent tonalities of his signature instrument, the EVI (Electronic Valve Instrument). Destroyer, his latest, and third for Kranky, marks his most multifaceted work yet. Inspired by minimalistic urges (evading grandiosity, condensing scope, embracing spatial restraint) tempered with the drama of triptychs (becoming, destruction, aftermath), the album’s 11 tracks thread a keening suite of aching, opaque beauty, traced in absence and breath.

First begun in the the no man’s land summer of 2020, Walter gradually amassed nearly two hours of demos, drafts, and ideas, then steadily whittled them to their essence. Destroyer enlists the sounds of a recently restored pump organ, adding pulses and quaking texture, but otherwise the album is a shimmering showcase of the EVI: miasmic, melodic, intuitive, infinite. It’s music of fraught devotion and uneasy peace, questing yet languorous, forever rapt and untethered.

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released October 13, 2023

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JUSTIN WALTER Ann Arbor, Michigan

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UK / EUROPE booking agent : sleepinginandout@gmail.com

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