For the last several years, Carlos Hernandez has been part of an ensemble force as the guitarist in Ava Luna. The band – which combines a pre-Dirty Projectors fame Felicia Douglass, Hernandez’ production collaborator in drummer Julien Fader, bassist Ethan Bassford, and before exiting after the band’s most recent album, Moon 2, Becca Kauffman of Jennifer Vanilla – has created one of the most uncanny styles in the Brooklyn avant-pop scene. Yet, Hernandez’ talents on his own merits have not been as fully realized as they are on Not Mine, his first solo album as Carlos Truly.

Recorded alongside his brother Tony Seltzer, the album professes an nth degree of synesthesiac sophisticate taste to it in the way Hernandez sculpts wave forms of R&B, funky guitars, and experimental pop and jazz flourishes in relation to his world view onto the emotional, personal and creative connect. With his voice barely touching ground, the listen blends sense and memory into a summertime feeling. Truly, it’s one of the coolest-sounding albums from one of the independent scene’s most underrated songwriters.

Highlights: “Dumb Desire”, “Cold Hands”, “Your Sound”

Carlos Truly’s Not Mine is available now on Bayonet Records.

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