Plastic Mag Breaks Down Dren McDonald’s New Album

According to Plastic Mag, Dren McDonald‘s “patient, intricate approach now reaches an exciting new chapter with his brand new record titled Vox Pterous, released through the Appearing Records imprint. With this new release, Dren revisits the instrumental origins of his acclaimed 2023 album Pterous, opening those carefully layered compositions to an exceptional group of vocalists. In doing so, he transforms music that was already emotionally compelling into something even more intimate and profoundly human. Named after the Latin word for ‘with wings,’ the original record was built from what Dren dubs guitar orchestras, with countless stacks of individually recorded single-note phrases played across different instruments and distances. Each composition served as a dedication to someone he’d lost during a three-year period, turning grief into an act of creation and adding a moving context to the wider work.”

The site goes track-by-track with the album – check that out here, and get it on the air now.