Photo by Nedda Asfari

Occasionally, you’ll spot CEREMONY frontman Ross (J.) Farrar sharing some of his recent vinyl finds across his IG stories. His taste are as eclectic as his body of work across the mediums of music and poetry, but it’s always those far out experimental, avant-noise, and free jazz listens which probably are informing the deconstructed ambiguity that you’re hearing the most of on “The Solitude of Victory”, the latest offering from his third solo album, Cleaning Out the Empty Administration Building. The places this man’s mind goes when he zones in and out of focus — a slow unspool of a low-hanging bass rhythm wobbling off ticks and tocks of chiming grandfather clocks and bells that’s like a centuries old deconstruction on Gothic post-punk — are untethered by space or time. When you realize the four-legged creature named Harry scratching at his heart to a reaction of unconditional love just might be the handsome fur child looking quite stately pictured above, the surreal design of Farrar’s perception of his world through an art of sound really makes you want to dive even deeper into that headspace to see the fantastical in it all.

R.J.F.’s Cleaning Out the Empty Administration Building will be released August 15th on DAIS Records.

(Source: getalternative.com)