Album Review: Lawrence English - Wilderness Of Mirrors

Lawrence English crafts his first solo album for his Room40 label, and it’s a miasmic wave of elegant and elegiac soundscapes.

The eight tracks here work together as a sonic narrative of tonal increments, the surreptitious movements from sonorous opener The Liquid Casket to the brooding closing call Hapless Gatherer more about the shifting sands of ambient layers, aural locutions of disembodied emotions. Played at volume, the exercise in dronal temperance becomes a clear focus in creating a blue-hued world in which to float, to think and to question.