📑 Sons Of (Sam Prekop and John McEntire)

Listened Sons Of, by Sam Prekop and John McEntire from Sam Prekop and John McEntire

Prekop and McEntire’s Sons Of is a thrillingly diverse journey and a masterclass in longform music that reveals nuance at each listen. By concentrating their considerable skills as both creators and curators, the duo have crafted an album abundantly vibrant, an intoxicating exploration of pure inspiration and intuition.

I really like how although these tracks are quite lengthly, they never feel overly repetitive or boring. This is something that Philip Sherburne captures in his review:

Every few bars, there’s a new sound clamoring for your attention; the chords gradually become more enveloping, radiant, even sentimental. The drifting harmonies echo the Sea and Cake at their balmiest and most bucolic, where even the slightest effort melts beneath the glow of the endless summer; the tumbling groove exemplifies the ramshackle, improvisatory spirit that’s at the heart of modular synthesis.

Place between Prop and Jono Ma.

One response on “📑 Sons Of (Sam Prekop and John McEntire)”

  1. Welcome back to another month. I feel like it has had a bit of everything, catching up with family visiting from interstate, eldest daughter managing to go on her first school camp in three years, as well as being being thrust into health and safety protocols.
    On the Work front, I feel like I have spent much of my time trying to get to the bottom of a range of new defects that have come with a recent upgrade. I am always intrigued how aspects of the application that have not been fixed or improved are impacted.
    Personally, I binged quite a bit this month, including The 100, Stranger Things, Birdman, Moon Knight and The Gray Man. I also listened to Tom Tilley’s memoir Speaking in Tongues. In regards to music, I enjoyed listening to Sam Prekop and John McEntire’s modular album Sons Of.
    Here then are some of the posts that have had me thinking:
    Self-Assessing Creative Problem Solving
    Wouter Groeneveld discusses his development of the Creative Programming Problem Solving Test (CPPST), a self-assessment test for programmers that measures more than just divergent thinking.
    If You’re Not Paying for the Product, You Are… Possibly Just Consuming Goodwill for Free
    Troy Hunt posits that sometimes we are simply consuming goodwill.
    Weary, old, a little broken, but not letting go of the dream: edtech in the 21st Century
    Jon Dron shares his thoughts on how to help the edtech community find its soul again.
    Four Tet on His 155-Hour Spotify Playlist, the Coolest Thing on Streaming
    Kieran Hebden discusses his epic Spotify playlist, an artefact for listeners to explore.
    Rewilding Cities
    Clive Thompson thinks about the idea of monocropping and the impact of rewilding beyond just nature.
    Read Write Respond #078
    So that was July for me, how about you? As always, hope you are safe and well.
    Image by Bryan Mathers
    Background image via “Lego Stranger Things (fx)” by decypher the code is licensed under CC BY-SA

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