Tune in on Thursday, October 2nd at 10:30am when The Genderwave hosts Lovage Sharrock and Jon Leidecker of improv acid folk meets ambient electronics project, Phipps Pt., for a live in-studio interview.
Songs We No Longer Sing – Phipps Pt.’s third album – is a stunning song cycle which moves across vignettes of consumption, lust, grief, and what it takes to push through life at a moment when so many forces are marshaled against living.
Sharrock’s gossamer vocals and delicately finger-picked guitar patterns find their complement in Leidecker’s equally sensitive approach to processing both, so that input frequently becomes indistinguishable from output. The album’s electronic glitches, buzzes, whirrs, and drones burnish rather than obscure Sharrock’s plaintive melodies and imagistic lyrics. Like practiced quilters, Phipps Pt. tenderly work their sonic material into a final composition whose design, no matter how abstract, never erases the traces of the human hands behind it.
Sharrock often says at the start of a performance that Phipps Pt. is, “a conjured place or an altered state – and we’re going there together.” As with René Daumal’s Mount Analogue, Phipps Pt. is not a terminus but an occasion for the journey. Full of strange beauty and unexpected emotional candor, Songs We No Longer Sing issues a similarly generous invitation but with the added luxury that the listener is now able to partake of many return visits.”
