Pan American
The Patience Fader
Kranky (2022)
Sonic maturity is not always reached by further augmenting one’s sound. It can also arrive when the artist understands what is important. What it is at the core of the project that makes it unique. Mark Nelson has taken such a journey with his project, Pan•American. In the early days, Pan•American relished the experimentalism of drone music, the ethereal quality of post-rock, and the subtlety of electronica. This combination resulted in a series of excellent works, with the self-titled debut and Quiet City standing out in particular. At the time, everything was fair game for Nelson. Ambient music breathed in a minimal spirit, glitch contortions provided an extravagance to the proceedings. And yet, beneath all these different genres and twists, there was something else that defined Pan•American. At the center of it all stands the solitary guitar, in its simple, stripped-down form. Nelson first introduced this approach to his sound with the 2017 full-length A Son. Stepping away from the deep experimentalism of his earlier works, Nelson instead drove Pan•American into a scenery seemingly taken out of Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas. It is at this same location that we now find him with The Patience Fader. “Swimming In A Western … Read more
Human Issue
Faceless. Nameless
Rad Girlfriend Records (2022)
Hunter Martinez is a scene vet, playing drums and/or guitar with Decent Criminal, Dwarves, and Slaughterboys, among others. In Human … Read more
