As on his earlier albums, Rich Panish sculpts scales and arpeggios into interesting, lyrical harmonies, but unlike on those albums, with Indolence & Melancholy he chooses to build the music in a linear fashion, instead of circling back to established motifs. This makes for a sound that is both more challenging and more intense. The album is intended as a meditation on those states of mind our modern society would prefer we avoid, and it embraces everything from quiet loneliness to outright insanity by playing with our assumptions of what causes us to deem some emotions beautiful, while shunning others that are possibly even more so.
This album is for my Gi.
Marc Wolf, guitar
Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf, cello
Jai Jeffryes, piano
Cover art, “Between the Light.” by Louis Schneider
Design, Jeremy Tressler
Engineering, dreamflower.us