10. Ezra Feinberg – Soft Power
Feinberg emerged about 20 years ago as the leading member of a San Francisco psych rock band called Citay. He has since moved to upstate New York (to practise psychoanalysis), and his albums now seem to explore music traditionally described as “psychedelic” (stoner rock, krautrock, lysergic folk, acid house and so on). But, crucially, Feinberg subtracts all the “rock” elements: the drums, the distortion, the dissonance. So we get the playful minimalism of Pose Beams; the hypnotic kosmiche rock of The Big Clock; the shimmering ambient house of There Was Somebody There – all wonderfully therapeutic pieces that are part of a beatific song cycle. Read the full review
