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Ezra Feinberg: Soft Power review – trippy, bucolic and playfully minimal
Feinberg has moved from psychedelic rock to a hypnotic romanticism that invites us to share in its gently throbbing pulses and heart-tugging beauty
He still makes music – this is his third solo album – although the “rock” elements have been slowly excised from his vocabulary, leaving only a trippy, hypnotic romanticism that uses acoustic guitars, electric pianos, vibraphones, flutes, harps and soft synth drones. On the opening track, Future Sand, Feinberg plays folksy clawhammer guitar while flautist David Lackner soars over the top, reminiscent of the heart-tugging bucolic beauty of John Cameron and Harold McNair’s music for Kes. Foundling are a Berlin-based experimental outfit led by Canadian singer Erin Lang, and their new album Equilibria is an intriguing mix of dream pop, junkyard minimalism and glittery ECM jazz, pitched somewhere between Julia Holter and David Sylvian.
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