Sweet Spirit - TrinidadTrinidad marks the Merge debut of this mighty sextet from Austin, TX. The songs are stripped down yet more intricate than ever before. It's a pop record made by punk rockers sonically happy but lyrically bitter. Lustful, sassy, and passionate. Touting inspirations as varied as Prince, T. Rex, William Onyeabor, ABBA, Roy Orbison, Shintaro Sakamoto, Francoise Hardy, and Robyn, Sweet Spirit have created an album that pulsates with more LinnDrum and synth

An inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera

the iconic slasher isn't far behind

sexual energy

I wove together any object on hand that fit with the chords

arching lines with more urgent declamatory passages

Madame de Pompadour

and The Holy Shroud

and while these works won't catapult him to world fame as a neglected genius

Onelinedrawing - Visitor -Translucent Blue

Sometimes rough and other times delicate

where she taught

and her sister