Jefre Cantu-Ledesma On The Echoing Green

Mexican Summer

Prolific San Francisco-based multi-instrumentalist Jefre Cantu-Ledesma unveils the most colourful and popcentric album of his career so far. The revered ambient sound explorer delivers an album that’s bristling with joy, elation and bright colours, but constructed through his typically hazy and distant sound. His damaged, broken shoegaze sound combines spacy indie rock, drone and experimental electronic sounds to create a densely layered, richly textured soundscape. Hazy guitars, woozy synths, wafting melodies, and plenty of tape fuzz glide over modular synth noises and distant drum machine rhythms. The way the forward-thinking producer manages to let real beauty and fragility seep through the wall of sound and filter through the industrial drone is testament to his exquisite composition skills. Drenched in reverb, echoes and delay-heavy textures, On The Echoing Green still has plenty of Cantu-Ledesma’s wistful melancholy, but this time manages to erupt with fervent positivity, joy and light. The entire album is full of intense emotions, adding a romantic, nostalgic feel to the heady, dreamy atmosphere that prevails. This gives the record a truly intimate and personal aesthetic that pulls you closer into the cosy, padded surroundings of Cantu-Ledesma’s ethereal world. A winding, almost formless expanse of sound floating free of time and space, On The Echoing Green engages with a process of disconnecting in order to help you connect on a deeper level. Full of warmth, beautiful colour and a fascinatingly experimental spirit, this is a sublime album from a prodigiously talented artist. Tom Jones

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