Typhoon

"Because to live in a world in which no one is forgiven, where all are irredeemable, is the same as living in hell." —Milan Kundera in The Joke Underground Complex No.1 (out April 15, 2022) is the first in a series of records about resentment. This one takes the form of a confession (slightly unorthodox) made by one character to another; each song being a different “sin.” We learn of a boy who burns down a field and inadvertently opens a portal to an underground world, of a husband fixated on his ex-wife and her new lover, of a discontented barfly swinging between delusions of grandeur and annihilating self-contempt. Episodes from a cyclical life lived in a world where forgiveness is not so much an artifact as it is a logical impossibility. Inspired by Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground—that timeless manual for how not to be a person—this record contains a character who isn’t so different from most of us; with all the hangups, blind spots, and harmless self-deceptions inherent in the species, just in a slightly more extreme form.