Jim O'Rourke – Hands That Bind [LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop ' --Francis Plagne"

' --Francis Plagne"

O'Rourke: guitar

exploits a weakness in voice recognition that cannot distinguish between individual voices

Mike Popovich (a long-time Foust colluder)

one of the things most curious about this LP is how close to the side’s titles Bruce chooses to hew

Jim O'Rourke – Hands That Bind [LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop ' --Francis Plagne""ORourkes process sourcing resonant sounds to enmesh together into a music that supersedes their resident parts makes a fitting soundtrack for Kyle Armstrongs prairie gothic tale of down on the farm horror way up north in Canada. His minimalist score inhabits the wide open, big sky landscape, flowing into suddenly deep (and opaque) emotional waters, then panning out to a chilly omniscient remove." Drag City, 2023