Gold,Ethan Expanses (Teenage Synthstrumentals) CD

Ethan Gold's Expanses (Teenage Synthstrumentals) is the other bookend on his recovery from a head injury, opposite his recent release Live Undead Bedroom Closet Covers. A different kind of plumbing of the depths of his musical awakening, Expanses is an album made in his teenage basement, of gurgling, murky, imperfect lo-fi 'synthstrumental' paintings, which bear zero resemblance to the electronic music of today. Organic synthesizers hand-played and 4-track recorded, with titles that reflect his longing for the natural world, with references to lizards, insects, and mossy pools. Sometimes playfully driving with primitive drum machines, sometimes teeming with life as if the synths are going to give birth to algae and tadpoles, the album journeys through imagined landscapes of Earth and ends, in the last two tracks, in a cold and lonely place.

1. Intro to Expanses 2. In Open Air at Last 3. Departure 4. Concrete Sweat 5. Aqua Petal 6. Corrosion 7. Lizards Enter the Rain Forest 8. On the North Sea 9. High Clocks 10. The Newest Crazy Element 11. Zion Pools 12. Crossing the Bar 13. Missing