May 13, 2019

An interesting album: Minimalist folk by A.A. Bondy

"With an arsenal of synthesizers, drum machine, sparse electric guitar, and a skeptic’s pen, he builds a plodding dystopian story of living death stoked by internet anti-reality, big pharma conspiracy, and environmental apocalypse" - Pitchfork reviews new album by minimalist folk singer-songwriter A.A. Bondy. 'Enderness' is his first in eight years, and PopMatters discusses the meaning of that very word - "a depressing and approximate kind of intimacy. It also suggests the feeling of being present at the end of something, of being a dead-ender". Both Pitchfork and PopMatters emphasise A.A. Brody's newfound Twitter identity - he tweeted for the first time in February to promote 'Enderness', and he’s dropped only eight tweets since. On May 2 he tweeted “#TBT to when my house burned down,” with a photo of himself in Christ pose, standing on remains of his burned down house. The fire happened the day after he finished the album.