Joe Westerlund - Reveries in the Rift (LP)Joe Westerlund is a drummer familiar from many possible contexts. For a decade, he served as the dynamic backbone of Megafaun, the North Carolina trio of sophisticated songwriting and winning charisma that he co founded. As Grandma Sparrow, Westerlund constructed fantastical song cycles about an imagined town, a place where swooping strings and sudden singalongs told the stories of characters you needed to be real. Under his own name, Westerlunda

his voice is cavernous here

studying his kit for every smallest sound

” And so

he’s yet to release a proper piano album

including for Gendel’s DRM and their AE-30 documentary

Let’s follow that idea

inevitable breakup

producing a ten-track LP that was both minimalist and shimmering

darkness and deliverance” arriving as “a necessary pop balm

unworldly quality to “How Did You Know” and album closer “Coming Back to You

an unknown expanse of land

It must have been 100F in that dome that afternoon