Meadow Argus - Dreams Are Another Doorway

Released: May 29

Dreams Are Another Doorway is approximately the fourth or fifth project I have heard from Meadow Argus and it never ceases to amaze me the way in which he is able to evoke the deepest sensation of memory in his music. And I say it like that because there is a certain quality to the amalgamated sound that never seems to enable specific memories, rather just the intense sensation of remembering. The crunchy and bruise quality of the tape loops he utilizes seems to factor heavily into this perception, along with the seeming esoteric nature of the recordings themselves.

It comes through even more so in the longer pieces as the recordings care allowed to play out over longer periods with minimal organ and key accompaniments. “Dessert Fox” stands out as a favorite example here as there is nothing particularly definitive in the recordings themselves, but evoke echoes of a simpler past regardless. And as it transitions in the next track, there is moment in which a vocal recording come through clearer but not quite discernible either than almost feels like a fuzzy memory suddenly coming into focus. And this is really the heart of this latest album and representative of his current body of work. The warbles, the over-warmth and saturation in the long ago recorded voices, and a floating dreamlike quality that keeps anything from becoming concrete and discreet. It is, in fact, a doorway into a fuzzily defined world.