American Dreams Records – 029-ADR (US, 2021)
BUY: https://waltmcclements.bandcamp.com/a...00:00 A1. Beginning (Still As Ships)
05:05 A2. Thresholds (Through A Hole In The Fence)
11:16 A3. Naked (A Showing Of Scars)
15:58 B1. Climb (Two Times Past Same Point In Six Hours)
22:23 B2. Reckon (Holding Buring Beams)
27:43 B3. Rinse (Repeat Repeat)
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Written and recorded by Walt McClements - except track 3 recorded by Ben Babbitt
Performed by Walt McClements on Accordion (with organ on track 4)
Mixed and mastered by Don Godwin
Cover photography by Meg Turner
Photo shoot assisted by Li Yaffe
Special thanks to Matt Sexter, Mary Lattimore, Ben Babbitt, Amelia Jackie, Jordan Reyes, and Kieran Ionescu
Driftless Recordings (US, 2021)
BUY: https://yesandmusic.bandcamp.com/albu...00:00 1. Craggy
01:41 2. Ugly Orange
06:01 3. More Than Love
09:40 4. Learning About Who You Are
17:33 5. Centered Shell
20:10 6. Tumble
22:39 7. Melt Away
25:57 8. Making A Monument
27:31 9. Emotion Scroll
29:57 10. In My Heaven All Faucets Are Fountains
The charged partnership of versatile guitarist Meg Duffy (aka Hand Habits) and producer Joel Ford (Oneohtrix Point Never, Jacques Greene, North Americans) took shape during pandemic-shadowed studio sessions in Los Angeles, gradually congealing into a poetic sonic language compellingly distinct from their respective discographies. As the moniker alludes to, 'yes/and' embraces an elusive, curious forward momentum, spiraling but subdued, between divination and dissipation.
Despite the album's experimental nature, its 10 tracks feel distinctly intimate and emotive, imbued with a strange optimism, both open-ended and opaque. The song titles reflect a similar duality, alternately blunt and oblique (“Learning About Who You Are,” “In My Heaven All Faucets Are Fountains”). Their musical instincts are oddly complementary, with Duffy's tactile fingerpicking and string caresses framed by Ford's spatial textures and compositional patience, conjuring an elevated theater of rare air and veiled escape. It's a suite born of friendship and depths, as tangled as it is translucent, somehow barely there yet far beyond the sum of its parts.
