Red Mosquito

yes, s'ing my friends' d's has been an essential component of my top ten album experiences as well

96583UP wrote:yes, s'ing my friends' d's has been an essential component of my top ten album experiences as well

If you need to be stealing your friends drinks you need better friends. They should see you have none and offer you some.

Sandro Perri - Impossible Spaces

Sandro Perri is perhaps known first and foremost as an engineer/producer. That said, his body of work as an artist, small though it may be and much of it under various pseudonyms, is some of my favorite music. Impossible Spaces, released in 2011, is his second full-length under his own name, and it sort of brings full circle everything he had done up to that point. The jazz and Tropicalia inflected folk of its predecessor, Tiny Mirrors, is transformed into a more elaborately arranged soft rock with electronic undertones. Funny enough, I have more personal memories associated with Tiny Mirrors because it came out right around the beginning of living 'on my own' after college ended, and it was the album that hooked me into Perri's sound-world, but I feel Impossible Spaces is the stronger work, so it wins in the consideration of which album belongs in my top ten.

Beyond that, there's not too much story of how I found the album. It was a bit of a long wait from Tiny Mirrors to Impossible Spaces (four years), and in that time I absorbed as much music involving Perri as I could. I do recall expecting to relate more with one of the album's major themes, the loss of a friend, because at the time one of my closest friends was departing, albeit in a less permanent fashion (simply moving further away). However, I never really connected strongly with that aspect of the album, instead latching on to the broader ideas of joy and pain inhabiting the same space, and how a fairly short and breezy album (38 minutes) can feel so immense and flawlessly profound. Impossible spaces, indeed.