IN A COOL MONSOON

"Back in stock. A serious contender for his best album so far, Jasper TX's In A Cool Monsoon is possibly his most varied and accessible work to date, appropriating a more pop-oriented sound than on prior outings. There's a heightened attention to song structure on this album, with Dag Rosenqvist's multi-instrumental sound tapestries more clearly defined, penetrating the electronic mist. The Fennesz /Tim Hecker comparisons are still there to be made, and 'Still A Tiny Light?' certainly invites that, but pieces like the beautiful 'Bending Spoons' demonstrate that Rosenqvist has outgrown merely being a sum of his influences. Scrappy drums back up reverberating melodica lines while guitars plot out an atmospheric tension, it's not quite post-rock, but nor is it discernibly electronica. The organic drones and haunting chord sequences of 'Summer' are similarly charged with a sense of mod and location, functioning as an acoustic counterpart to the elegiac digital resonance of 'I Will Be Birds When I Die', which takes its shape from swathes of shimmering synthesizer and muddy field recordings..." www.boomkat.com