Conner Youngblood, a twenty year old American dreadlocked man has recently released a very interesting album called Cheyenne. It's not his first, but it's the first to come to my attention a it's great and really quite unusual. Full of ambient, spacey meditation on modern existence.
Youngblood is a Yale graduate who wrote his dissertation on The Band's, The Weight a worthwhile exercise in itself. Cheyenne will probably be appreciated by more people than that, mapped out by a whole orchestra of instruments, played by Youngblood with a choir of his voices sprinkled into the mix. It reminds me of Bon Iver but without the self-indulgence.
It's full of moments, like looking through someone's smartphone albums from a holiday in Iceland or Scandinavia. You're there but not there somehow. Anyhow I found it quietly evocative and impressive.
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