Soft Landing, by Sandro Perri

Soft Landing

by Sandro Perri

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Nate Stevens I have no idea if this is folk or rock or what, but man this is a sweet album with unbelievable amounts of heart! Favorite track: Wrong About The Rain.

Alec L. Critten The lush sounds of an imaginary summer, conjuring vivid images of sunsets and balconies. Subtle electronic flavors paired with intricate guitar soundscapes. The epitome of chill. Favorite track: Floriana.

kilowattkate Imagine the sound of space so close to the ground, absorb the slow harmonies and enjoy the reflection.

Michael Mueller Sandro Perri continues to refine his style (in this particular guise) whilst subtly extending its parameters.

Guitar to to the fore, Soft Landing, especially its epic first track, reminds me of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, if a David Gilmour (in the most mellow of moods) had played guitar on it.

A supine bath of an album, it ebbs and flows with a Spring-fused warmth, all cut grass and flowers beginning to bloom.

A blissful, meditative journey of an album. Timeless, really. Favorite track: Time (You Got Me).

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1.	Time (You Got Me) 16:10	buy track
2.	Floriana 05:15	buy track
3.	God Blessed The Fool 04:29	buy track
4.	Back On Love 04:45	buy track
5.	Wrong About The Rain 05:10	buy track
6.	Soft Landing 05:59	buy track
7.	Time (You Got Me) Edit 05:24	buy track

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It took seven years for Sandro Perri to return with an album under his own name, releasing In Another Life (“his outsider pop masterpiece” — Exclaim) in the fall of 2018, as the much-anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed full-length Impossible Spaces (#38 album of 2011 at Pitchfork, among other accolades). But the Perri floodgates have now well and truly opened: the flow of sparkling, eddying music he’s been meticulously doling out of late (including two recent volumes of collaborative avant-electronic work with his Off World project) charts another vital, rejuvenating tributary with Soft Landing.

Soft Landing features songs Perri has been playing around with for the better part of the last decade, taking many forms along the way, and recorded sporadically over a long period. It’s also his most guitar-based collection since 2007’s Tiny Mirrors. While Perri is rightly celebrated as “one of the most singular producers in contemporary music” (Boomkat) for his widely varied electronic work, his foundations as a guitarist have always anchored his ‘solo’ albums in one form or another. On Soft Landing, Perri’s guitar playing is at the smoothly, expressively rambling heart of these tunes — while his recording and mixing acumen as a (self-) producer is also on brilliant display.

As with last year’s In Another Life (which comprised two album-length sides of ‘infinite song’), Soft Landing opens with the 16-minute “Time (You Got Me)”, an enchanted mid-tempo excursion anchored by Perri’s gently sliding guitar riff and a serene vocal delivering lyrics that can be read as a wistfully acquiescent love letter to the fourth dimension. Paced by congas, shakers, claves, impressionistic piano and even the occasional wind chime, Perri wraps up his final vocal refrain by the song’s fifth minute and then steers the instrumental theme down a long and winding road in his inimitable style – like a stroll along a country lane where every glint of dappled sunlight catches another rustling, animate micro-detail. The album then shifts to what might be called more ‘finite’ songs (each clocking in at 4-6 minutes), with Side One’s closer “Floriana” representing one of two instrumentals, where an arpeggiated guitar riff makes the bed for a series of lovely and languorous melodic lines traded between electric lead guitar, trumpet and flute, that evoke sunrise in ways equally suited to waking up from a long restorative slumber or wrapping up an all-nighter.

“God Blessed The Fool” opens Side Two, a splendid stroke of sultry slow-burn soul that finds Sandro singing a literal chorus of “deedly deedly dum dum” in sweet falsetto. “Back On Love” is perhaps the album’s most familiar-sounding Perri tune and arguably the most explicit love song in his catalogue: a song about love itself, needless to say (it’s doubtful we’ll ever hear a “baby I want you back” jam from Perri). “Wrong About The Rain” channels only the choicest tropes of syncopated 70s-era soft-rock; Perri weaves ornate guitar licks around a succulent interplay between clavinet and trap kit, resulting in one of the most immediately satisfying tunes he’s ever put to tape – high praise for someone with Perri’s stellar catalogue to date, but we’re confident fans will agree. Thanks for listening.

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released September 6, 2019

Music and lyrics by Sandro Perri. Recorded at 6 Nassau and Sonology, Toronto 2015-2019. Mixed West of Vinny’s. Mastered at Grey Market by Harris Newman. Layout by Ian Ilavsky and Davin Risk. Published by Ribbon Music 2019.

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