Pitchfork Says Sam Amidon’s New Album Will Leave You “Gently Hallucinating”

The sixth-album by folk/Americana deconstructionist Sam Amidon showcases the artist applying his tactics to a full-album of original pieces for the first time. Pitchfork dove into his new album, The Following Mountain, to explore how he went about “extracting folk songs from his own improvisations” with luminaries Milford Graves (Albert Ayler, Sonny Sharrock) and Juma Sultan (Jimi Hendrix).

“The resultant music rolls and shimmers, with hard little fillips of guitar glinting in waves of woodwinds and violins, organs and electric basses,” describes the review. Read more about it here to learn why the album will leave you “gently hallucinating as from sleep deprivation.”

The Following Mountain is just outside the Top 100 at NACC. Share what Pitchfork calls “a musician’s record” with your DJs today! Listen to “Juma Mountain” below.