In Tall Buildings – Akinetic

In Tall Buildings, aka Chicagosongwriter and multi-instrumentalist Erik Hall, has released his new album, Akinetic on Western Vinyl. Produced alongside Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine, Califone) at Hall’s Chicago home studio, Akinetic yields ten new tracks of spacious and textured handmade pop, plunging headlong into allegories of communication, loss, impulse, vice, and mass-denialism.

Days in Clover Overconscious Akinetic Siren Song Wake Up Long Way Down Beginning to Fade Cascadia Curtain New Moon

Hall wrote and recorded Akinetic between stints producing records for label mates Lean Year and ambient artist Justin Walter. A venerable one-man ensemble, Hall performed every instrument heard on the album with the exception of a lovely guest vocal appearance from Heather Woods Broderick and occasional looming woodwinds from Elliot Bergman (NOMO, Wild Belle). With the addition of a kindred and veteran co-producer in Deck, Akinetic is one of the most sharply written and deftly recorded home-studio albums in memory, and the greatest height yet reached for In Tall Buildings.