Rob Marshall pushes himself close to the creative cliff on his first album as Humanist

British guitarist Rob Marshall invited "a long list of extraordinary vocalists [Dave Gahan, Mark Lanegan, Carl Hancock Rux] to bring grace, philosophical wisdom, and their unique artistic perspective to the songs" on his debut album as Humanist. PopMatters says the album's "high-minded ideals of birth, death, morality, and one's place in an unrelenting world are articulated by a perfectly curated list of singers who have all flown as close to the sun as anyone. Musically it's rich in scope with Marshall pulling in all of his influences from post-punk to breakbeat to indie and krautrock and fitting them together like parts of a puzzle".