ANDREW LANG - frailty - BRAND NEW CASSETTE TAPE

‘Frailty’ is the new album by Andrew Lang, a composer and musician from Adelaide, Australia. Frailty represents a new direction for Andrew, departing from his piano-centric neoclassical ambient compositional approach, and instead turning to electric guitars, effects pedals, synths, field recordings and tape machines. The result is a collection of dreamy, blissed-out dronescapes, which maintain the delicate, emotional sensibilities of his past music, while embracing thick, sustained tones and washes of noise.

The track ‘Years & Years’ features a guest saxophone performance by Derek Pascoe, which Andrew ran through a chain of effects to transform and blend into a ringing, reverberating fog of sound.

Andrew recorded the bulk of Frailty between 2020 and 2022, a time of emotional upheaval for him, due in part to the once-in-a-generation events of that period. This range of emotions, from nostalgia and loss to optimism and joy, is etched into the compositions that make up Frailty.