G. S. Schray - The Changing Account (Last Resort)

WHAT THE COVER LOOKS LIKE:

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WHAT WE SAY:

Chill out, cinematic schmaltz, easy listening & smooth jazz all struggle for credibility on their own but the new G. S. Schray LP for Last Resort manages to hover in their intersectional sweet spot, gently morphing between genres in an ambiguously hazy sort of way & brings out the best in all of them.

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WHAT YOUR EARS SAY:

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RELEASE NOTES:

One of life’s most difficult arts is learning to let go. You can try to cling to control in the face of a turbulent world, but the only constant we can count on is change—the tendrils of cleansing fire wiping away the old, new life springing forth from the dust and ash. So what’s the point? Give yourself over to the depths. Surrender to the flow.

G.S. Schray’s new solo album The Changing Account is an appropriate soundtrack for learning to cope with a world we can’t count on. Each piece is full of elliptical melodies that swirl with the unstable logic of dreams. Flurries of piano, guitar lines, and other more alien instrumentation shimmer delicately, but before they coalesce into familiar shapes or rhythms they change, then change, then change again. Listening is a bit like falling asleep on a long road—with each passing song you’re waking up somewhere new, trying to get your bearings in another strange world. How did I get here? Where are we going? It doesn’t matter. Close your eyes, drift away again.

Credits:
Recorded in Akron, 2019 -2020 with Steve Clements, Corey Farrow and Kit Freund.

Mastered by James Plotkin.