Driftless Recordings (US, 2021)
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00:00 1. Craggy
01:41 2. Ugly Orange
06:01 3. More Than Love
09:40 4. Learning About Who You Are
17:33 5. Centered Shell
20:10 6. Tumble
22:39 7. Melt Away
25:57 8. Making A Monument
27:31 9. Emotion Scroll
29:57 10. In My Heaven All Faucets Are Fountains
The charged partnership of versatile guitarist Meg Duffy (aka Hand Habits) and producer Joel Ford (Oneohtrix Point Never, Jacques Greene, North Americans) took shape during pandemic-shadowed studio sessions in Los Angeles, gradually congealing into a poetic sonic language compellingly distinct from their respective discographies. As the moniker alludes to, ’yes/and’ embraces an elusive, curious forward momentum, spiraling but subdued, between divination and dissipation.
Despite the album’s experimental nature, its 10 tracks feel distinctly intimate and emotive, imbued with a strange optimism, both open-ended and