ALEX MACFARLANE - "MEANDERINGS" CS

LULU'S: More stark and beautiful strangeness from patron of the why arts Alex Macfarlane. And I don’t mean strange in that the music is particularly wyrd in itself, moreso that it’s difficult to imagine many other people sitting down in their home to create this sort of music. Alex always manages to surprise and invert expectations and rules for zigging and zagging prescribed in most playbooks, and it just works. You always end up completely along with him for the ride and surprised to find yourself loving all the stops along the way. Each winding turn, ancient site, rainbow forest, antique store, velveted drinking hole along the way is a source of delight you didn’t expect. It is in through this lens that the album can be seen and thus fairly titled as meandering (like on the buses in countryside Japan where there is a warning: PLEASE HOLD ON, BUS TRAVELS ALONG MEANDERING ROADS). Yes, this is beautiful strangeness in the way you’d imagine Atlantean Pop music (pop music from the lost city of Atlantis) to be.