SIMON JOYNER - Coyote Butterfly LP Folk

SIMON JOYNER - Coyote Butterfly LP FolkCoyote Butterfly is the first album of new songs in two years from singer songwriter, Simon Joyner, following the overdose death of his son, Owen, in August of 2022. Drawing on the kaleidoscopic nature of grief, Joyner explores his loss through a series of imagined dialogues and raw confessions. The album is a tribute to Owen, but what Joyner generously delivers is an intimate glimpse at his attempt to comprehend the incomprehensible. The album is

screaming female vox and the fiddly shooting gallery are complemented by the occasional electronica and

while oriental scales slide amongst wavey-electronic instrumentation

to the jarringly familiar but fractured alarm bell and clock tick samples on “Void Drone

accentuating the tribal elements inherent in the original

Did the clouds ever speak back

An absolute triumph of a debut

as if you were stranded within the dormant memory of a digital archive

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an album formed by generative systems "whorling streams of synthesised sound" in contemporary surround sound formats

the album casts a long shadow - but Raymonde believes the record"s uniqueness stems directly from its humble

A Collection of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices

the production of recordings