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Jesse Mac Cormack's at last beginning to see what his music is all about. His second studio album is piercing as a look, tender as a goodbye-a collection of electronic songs that lift and crash like waves upon a shore. After a recording process that was by turns nourishing and peaceful, lonely and anguished, the gifts of time, distance and therapy have allowed the Montreal songwriter to finally understand everything he wants to say. InchWhatever you go through, you're always going to be alone with what you're living,Inch Mac Cormack says. This was a hard-won lesson. In the deepest depths of the Pandemic, with a relationship in it's ending, the musician recalls finally making a decision to move forward, to change, to really begin to see himself. SOLO is the sound of that transformation, recorded over the course of a year and a half, marked by it's hardships but also it's relief. As on Now, Mac Cormack's acclaimed 2019 debut, he plays almost every instrument himself, surrounded by a soundtrack of one. Across 11 rippling tracks, the singer summons a sonic world that's razor-edged and intimate, influenced by the textured electronics of James Blake, Little Dragon, Caribou and SUUNS. Drum machines stutter under blooms of synths; curses float below swirls of loving sound. Mac Cormack has hidden so much discomfort inside an album that's warm and glimmering, like a storm cloud before it's strike. Even now, long after the season's passed, there's lightning in the air.001. Blue World 002. Let It Go 003. NHFN 004. A&E 005. Untitled 006. L.A. Sky 007. LBTA 008. All at Once 009. The Hills 010. Pattern Album Tracks 1. Blue World 2. Let It Go 3. NHFN 4. A&E 5. Untitled 6. L.A Sky 7. Lbta 8. All at Once 9. Hills 10. Pattern
