(2020) William Ryan Fritch - The Letdown


Review:
A new album series, entitled Built Upon a Fearful Void (or ‘Fearful Void Series’), seems apt for 2020. Lost Tribe Sound will be introducing 15 new albums to their fold, releasing from June 2020 and running through to June 2021. This will entail an album a month, and the ambitious project begins with label veteran William Ryan Fritch’s The Letdown. The Letdown showcases an entirely new side to William Ryan Fritch, which is impressive as his discography has already produced a spectrum of differing colours. The multi-instrumentalist will be releasing five new albums as part of the Fearful Void series, including one from his alter ego, Vieo Abiungo. Fun, loose, and imbued with a classic film noir atmosphere, it’s upstanding and respectable music, nicely dressed in suitable attire, streamed from another era, such as the golden period of Hollywood or even earlier, a tinkling piano tune from the saloons or bars of the Wild West, for instance, and it doesn’t take itself too seriously. Its old, sepia-tinged atmosphere tints the entire album; burying its head in the past to escape and/or forget about the countless troubles of the present, drinking away the pain with a detective, complete with trench-coat and hat, downing whisky and scotch, perhaps pouring out an ongoing drama with a tall, leggy blonde and a femme fatale. Some kind of loose, smeared lipstick Jazz. The finger-clicking, foot-tapping interludes step into the spotlight, showing Fritch’s sheer variety and adaptability. A splendid evening entertainment.





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Media Report:
Genre: ambient, jazz
Source: CD
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits