Nothing Sun Under The New

Nothing Sun Under the Newa"the title of Stephen Beckeras new EP of bedroom-spun songsa"expresses exactly the kind of poetic sleights-of-hand we encounter throughout this short, brilliant offering from the Brooklyn songwriter. Becker fills this compact record with aphorisms flipped on their heads, reversals of logic and intuition, dislocations of causality and expectation. He finds a joyful sense of confusion in all the little contradictions of our daily lives, and these shards of irony take on a kind of intimacy when wrapped in a blanket of synthesizers, spun around a water wheel of modulating chord changes, and shot through with pulsing drum machines and sudden bursts of noise. The music churns the songwriteras ambivalence into revelation, his confusion into reverie, and his words into invitationsa"asking us to see whatas right in front of us as something strangely new.01 Slurpee02 Clean03 One Day At A Time04 Tie-Dye