John Calvin Abney - Transparent Towns - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

John Calvin Abney rises again from the Oklahoman prairies with his latest album Transparent Towns. The ten songs focus on how we remember, and ultimately accept, though he is not always certain the memories we carry adequately mark the moments that make us.InchThis record is wrapped around the passage of time, whether or not we can trust the memories that we swear on, how we forgive ourselves and others as seasons turn, and how we define what is important as we roll the boulder back up the hill,Inch Abney says of Transparent Towns. InchWe build these routines and live our stories, we rely on our histories and our memories - spoken and recorded. Now, we're relying on copies of copies, memories of memories, all packed like sardines into our phones, and we're losing the ability to tell our own stories. I have to constantly remind myself, as well as redefine what matters at the end of a day.InchTransparent Towns is the seventh studio album for Abney, and his first since 2022's Tourist, which he crafted after spending the pandemic as an itinerant writer. In contrast Abney penned most of the album's 10 tracks during a period of introspection and convalescence while recovering from vocal cord surgery in 2023. The time to himself - InchI didn't sing for nearly a year, and after surgery, I couldn't talk for a month, and couldn't sing for over three months,Inch he says, left him contemplating how to trace his experiences in the silence.The album's title track is Abney's take on the inaccessible past, witnessing loss and grief through the years, damning the Inchdays we let go left unsaidInch, and accepting the uncontrollable circumstances we are sometimes placed in. InchThe troubles and the joys exist vibrantly in your memory, but you're wondering if you remember correctly,Inch Abney remarks. InchI've sometimes had this sort of confusion between memory and dreams - you crafted t