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<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n“Someday, BSL guitarist\/singer\/mastermind *Jack Sobel* and friends will stop making these exquisite albums, but I hope not anytime soon. This ninth one triumphs *again* despite being recorded in pandemic-related isolation (Sobel even recording\/mixing), extending his\/their second-act run of remarkable. There\u2019s no *Chameleons* this time, neither *Mark Burgess *(early LPs) nor* Dave Fielding *(2019\u2019s superlative *Vita Eterna*), but even unaided, Sobel can painstakingly project postpunk\u2019s dark nights of the soul. Though Atlanta-based, like New York\u2019s Interpol, he manufactures the muck of Northern Blighty\u2019s misty moors as if he too were from Middleton. Prizes such as \u201cHide in View\u201d and the Ride-like \u201cThe Fear\u201d purr, too, like wet wind-tunnels of beautiful, ill-omened unease. (RIYL Sad Lovers & Giants\u2019 \u201cCowboys,\u201d the Chams\u2019 \u201cIntrigue in Tangiers,\u201d and Joy Division\u2019s \u201cDisorder.\u201d) Varying rhythms and textures, he pervades this gorgeous gloom with heart and soul (in isolation), engaging effects-accented guitars that seem to arrive from entire netherworlds. Genuine artistry, again.”<\/span><\/p>\n \u2014Jack Rabid <\/span>The Big Takeover<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n