Barbarossa Bloodlines CD

2013 release from British singer/songwriter James Math? AKA Barbarossa. There were plenty of reasons for Math? to simply keep course after the release of his well received debut album, Chemical Campfires in 2008 on Fence Records: A flourishing reputation as one of Britain's most exciting acoustic troubadours, a prominent spot in Johnny Flynn and Jose Gonzales' backing bands. But Math? had other ideas. Bloodlines is a compelling reinvention and sees Math?'s emotive missives from young adulthood rewired into elegiac electronic anthems, dusted with huge spectral gasps of reverb and soul-wrenching organ melodies. Unusually for such an electronic album, it was recorded on vintage analog gear and straight to tape.