Indie Rock Songwriter J. Mamana Paziņo 'For Every Set of Eyes' LP with First Single "Hope Saved July"

For Every Set of Eyes, J. Mamana’s second full-length album (out 2024. gada 23. augusts via Holy Family), emerges luminously out a four-year period of turmoil and disillusionment for the songwriter, bearing the hallmarks that made his debitē of critical and cult interest.

Ierakstīts ar Seth Manchester (Lingua Ignota, Model/Actriz, Mdou Moctar) un apguvis Heba Kadry (Björk, Big Thief, Cass McCombs), Mamana rotā savas dziesmas ar pretpunktu strūklakām, bēdīgiem ragiem, dzeltenajām vokālajām harmonijām, baznīcas sintēzēm un plunked klavieru un klasisko ģitāru. Rīkojumi ir pierādījums Mamana uzmanībai uz detaļām - tas burtiski atveras ar fugu strūklaku kvartetam - izceļot viņa „talantu, redzējumu, ambīciju [un] priekšlaicīgumu”, lai citētu Jayson Greene Pitchfork pārskatu par viņa debiju, Nothing New in the West, bet tagad ar izsmalc

If Nothing New concerned itself with the sweep of history, then For Every Set of Eyes peers inward at the singer. The stories Mamana tells on this record are, broadly speaking, autobiographical, and they concern the sudden death of his best friend to overdose at age 26 and the subsequent end of his four-year relationship.

It is not for nothing that Mamana named this record after a lyric from Neil Young’s On the Beach (“I never knew a man/could tell so many lies/He had a different story/for every set of eyes”). If Highway 61 Revisited was the tentpole reference for his first LP, then Young’s “Ditch Trilogy,” with its gloom, air of hopelessness, and dirt-black humor, is the spiritual forbearer to his second.

Daudzi mākslinieki ir izveidojuši krīzes ierakstus, Mamana apgalvo, un tie nav labāki par to. Tā vietā, lai vilktu, Mamana centās izmantot šo ierakstu, lai izpētītu veidus, kā dzīvības zudums un ticības zudums bieži vien atrisina, jā, bēdas, bet arī dīvainībā, kas robežojas ar transcendentu.