Villagerrr – Carousel LP (Blue snowcone) folk rock critic Greil Marcus puts

rock critic Greil Marcus puts it succinctly

careening sirens

is an exercise in returning in order to go further

Rather than the music being flattened into a single plane

many of the songs containing noisy interludes streaked with melody

Villagerrr – Carousel LP (Blue snowcone) folk rock critic Greil Marcus putsA new dynamic chpater in villagerrr's discography, Carousel, Mark Scotts fifth album as villagerrr, glides from slowcore to shoegaze, from log cabin folk to the accelerated bliss of rock tailor made for an empty freeway. The boldest and most delicate album to date from the Ohio songwriter, Carousel is a sweeping exploration of what it means to try to make sincere art in a hyperexposed and constricting age, where Scotts big, midwestern songs smolder