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- Record Label: Silver Current
- Release Date: May 1, 2026
- Summary: The seven track collaboration between Thurston Moore and Bonner Kramer is said to be "a prayer to the war-torn souls of the families of Palestine."
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- Record Label: Silver Current
- Genre(s): Experimental, Ambient, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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May 22, 2026Kramer and Moore interact with each other's fiery and ungovernable sounds effortlessly, often finding anger and peace within the same tune. They craft an atmosphere that stays in this tenuous balance for the entirety of the album, acknowledging suffering and universal loss while always keeping the hope for something better as a guiding light.
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May 22, 2026Moore’s playing style retains the idiosyncratic features that rendered it a totemic and canonical part of experimental and alternative music. Kramer’s additions, however, reveal layers of emotion to Moore’s improvisation, which becomes a form of unconscious emotional expression.
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May 22, 2026While Moore’s contributions here are instantly recognizable—that guitar sound only comes from one place—Kramer’s are more elusive, a twinkle of piano in the maelstrom, an enveloping ambience of (maybe?) synth tones, the thud and ritual of percussion.
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UncutMay 22, 2026Ritual invocations are summoned by suggestive titles as much as music, setting the improv in its moment. [Jul 2026, p.31]