Dissection Maps

Description

Old Saw, the enigmatic collective from New England led by Henry Birdsey (Tongue Depressor), returns with their third full-length album, Dissection Maps. It is not enough to map the fields. The choreography of mapping requires the molding of stones, a grass fire, a carnival; something to break the horizontality of existence and imagine the vertical. The Earth is the eighth morning, folded against the work of the week. The field is a line drawing of forgetfulness. The house is a forest shaped like a uterus. America is prey to the image of God. (Aidan Patrick Welby – 2024) "The band captures the American stretch, the spaces in between, and the emptiness that haunts us along these roads... Weakens the radio to let the void linger in the soul. (Raven sings the blues) “evokes a solemn atmosphere akin to a prayer that celebrates something resolutely earthly, what the label describes as ‘a world of rusty, grainy shadows where the dive bar meets the divine.’ It recalls one of those dump sanctuaries built by sincere, eccentric, and improbable forms of stone and scrap metal that stand like totems of an unrecognized religion rooted in the earth that surrounds us. (Various small flames)