DUNCAN, JOHN & JOACHIM NORDWALL — Conventional Wisdom
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"Venerable avant-garde composer John Duncan follows his prized cycle of cover versions Bitter Earth [2016] with Conventional Wisdom; a truly beguiling new suite of original, stony avant-blooz songs produced in collaboration with iDEAL boss Joachim Nordwall, and marking another high point in both of their catalogues After coming out as a vocalist to memorably striking effect in 2016, Duncan compounds the effect with Conventional Wisdom, placing his original lyrics in stark arrangements ranging from shortwave radio-streaked dark ambient settings and Mika Vainio-esque isolationism, to deathly dubs driven by Nordwalls rugged rhythms in a style that heavily recalls Jay Glass Dubs recent Epitaph LP."