The Book of Trinkets, by Andrew Sherwell

The Book of Trinkets

by Andrew Sherwell

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Lost Tribe Sound A heavy, tactile blanket of sound, that is somehow both coarse and comforting. A fine line to walk but Sherwell does this masterfully.

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1.	Chapter I of Ash & Bone 05:20	buy track
2.	Chapter II of Teeth & Twine 05:23	buy track
3.	Chapter III of Feather & Brass 07:44	buy track
4.	Chapter IV of Key & Holly 05:55	buy track
5.	Chapter V of Shadow & Glass 06:22	buy track
6.	Chapter VI of Iron & Blood 06:10	buy track
7.	Chapter VII of Here & Now 04:24	buy track

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This is an awkward album. Some of this awkwardness is unconscious and unplanned, the by-product of lo-fi techniques and studio ineptitude. Some is planned and conscious, the product of searching for rifts, of searching for “the symbols of the divine that show up in the trash stratum” (Philip K. Dick). Through awkwardness and juxtapositions, glimpses of something else can be seen, a something that is lost in the polished, the tuned, the smooth. Partly because I believe ‘better’ works often come with their own inbuilt responses, by engaging with them they engender a set reaction, so there is simply no room nor stimulus for the listener/reader/viewer’s own interpretation and thoughts. The art has become artifice – merely propaganda or pornography.

By embracing the rifts, the imperfect, the awkward, and the juxtaposition, we turn our backs on works that are apparently perfect reflections, as comforting and numbing as they are, of a reality that doesn’t really exist anyway. To push further, alongside art, we need other, obsolete modes of thinking, approaches that, well, capitalism has forced out. We need more magic, more religion. Through art, magic, religion, we can push back, think for ourselves and finally see the radical mystery, the Other, the divine behind everything, and that makes life, and by extension, us anything but irrelevant.

All that from some static and too much reverb.

Andrew

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released October 8, 2021

Music & Artwork - Andrew Sherwell
Mastering - Stephan Mathieu
Shimmering Moods Records 2021
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