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Their Arms Surround Me Like Chains Made of Velvet

by J. Carter

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"If ever there could be a soundtrack to self-reflection, may it be Their Arms Surround Me Like Chains Made Of Velvet, the new album from J. Carter, out now via Vaknar Records. The Brooklyn-based experimentalist seems to specialize in stirring that which lies deepest within consciousness and sensibility, and the work on this album does so in ways that are both devastating and transformative. An unknowable history is brought forth like Proust’s madeleines, through instrumentation that is at once archaic and wholly new—not quite an acoustic guitar, but rather its memory, obscured by the ruination of adult living.

Such aching nostalgia whirrs past your head on opening track, “Introductory Discourse (Placing My Ailments Aside),” like jumpscares in a horror movie, the feelings of longing set to ambush at any and every turn. Spoken word, set against glowing ambience on “Contour Defined by Defenses (Apropos of the City),” elicit a reckoning between self and past selves, past relationships, past decisions. Synthesizer notes glide along linear passageways that could go on forever and offer a chance for the return of a happiness once concrete, but, as everything will, they fleet and dusk and sunken reality sets back in, grounded entirely in the melancholia of “Interpolation of Lust (Hands Outline Intent).

The least effected guitar samples on the album sound like a saddened troubadour playing in the corner of the abandoned bar in which you sit and ruminate. It converses with synthesizer notes prodding in the dark, echoing the Japanese exchange that plays over and through it. And everything comes to a head on closer “The Ropes Become Water As We Roll Together Towards Dawn,” with evident vocal cries submerged in glistening organ sounds that stretch on forever like buzzing glows of regret. It’s a most empathetic end to a most empathetic album. Carter sees his own humanity, and yours in these notions of nostalgia, and he writes it, hoping for at least a postcard in return, which is easily obliged by our attention given to this album, and our supervision of our feelings for its duration."

- Jp Basileo

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released April 8, 2019

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