Sun Ark US Vinyl & CDs

Review: Much-legit avant-garde, neofolk, electronica and everything-in-between string-puller Sun Araw shares Lifetime, his tenth studio album. In his own words, Lifetime continues to investigate space as a motionless field against which many motions are observed. Launching into a diabolical, verging on nonsensical descriptive tract - "stasis: wheels within and wheels without! Dripping Magnetisations! Arcs of Slowing Rotations!" - Araw's emphasis on the intended psychotropic effect of his music, as of a drug, is as prominent as ever. The record is a saturnalian topsy-turve - consisting in post-dub declensions and desert tropics, the likes of 'Lifetime', 'Porphyr' and 'Zero Declination' among them - and proves to be yet another vulturous victory in sound for the LA native / outfit.