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Meant as a companion piece to \u003ci\u003eThe Transition\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cell\u003c\/i\u003e picks up where The \u003ci\u003eTransition\u003c\/i\u003e left off, with David continuing the search to find his place in the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpening with the title track, \u003ci\u003eThe Cell \u003c\/i\u003eimmediately draws us into David’s unique world of storytelling, displaying his peculiar skill of weaving feelings and characters with wandering melodies. The five-minute opener peaks with David’s emotional falsetto repeating “In the mind”, acting as an alarm call for himself and his surroundings. Lead track \u003ci\u003eNature’s Course\u003c\/i\u003e finds David delving deeper into existential questions about the human condition and its relation to nature, set to a gentle, melancholy piano ballad. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cell\u003c\/i\u003e further cements David’s place among the American songwriting tradition, from the slow methodical spacey instrumental Mandatory Soul to the poetic solo piano number Family and the dense and continuous Lexington Hills. 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Recorded in Peter’s studio The Sparkle on the Oregon coast, the pair used this solitude to focus on creating something as raw and honest as possible, particularly in what some might deem unattainable during a time where complexity is sought most. 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This music is reinterpreted on my 114 year old upright piano which was very kindly donated to me by my friend Adam Selzer who previously ran a recording studio in Portland called Type Foundry. This piano is very sentimental to me as it was used by a handful of my favourite musicians on their albums over the past 20 years, namely Peter Broderick’s \u003ci\u003eHow They Are \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Two Balloons\u003c\/i\u003e. Somehow in a wild twist of fate, this piano would end up in my living room as my own and I couldn’t imagine a greater musical instrument best friend. Felt The Transition was made with a homemade felt setup used to muffle the sound into a warmer quality which also accentuates the wooden creaky noises of the antique piano, which I love so much. After spending hours at a time getting lost in the beautiful sound of this piano, I started learning a few songs from \u003ci\u003eThe Transition\u003c\/i\u003e with it. I was kindly encouraged by my girlfriend to interpret the whole album on piano even if just for her, so I did and it eventually found a home on Erased Tapes.\" — David Allred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKept in their original track order, from the opening chords of\u003ci\u003e Scoop Troop \u003c\/i\u003eto the debut’s standout piece \u003ci\u003eThe Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, each composition gains a completely new light when performed on solo piano. For Catherine E. 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Dedicated to the expression of existential themes such as death, grief, longing and loss, the album’s core theme centres around the suicide of a young girl Lauren, who was a family friend to Allred. For as long as he could remember, Allred always created music out of a kind of dissociative state which he finds alluringly easy to lapse into. A repetition of a motif is usually where he begins composing. But unlike his previous works, \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful World\u003c\/i\u003e firmly has one foot in reality and is deeply intertwined with Allred’s relationships, past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough his correspondence with Erased Tapes label head and the album’s producer, Robert Raths, over the past year, he came to realise that everyone has a Lauren in a way – someone they’d lost. Through writing to Raths, Allred was able to draw out this thread from the work and position it more clearly as the central concept to this work. The music doesn’t reflect the chaos of trauma, instead it has a therapeutic quality. It was through this dialogue that Allred was able to create what may be his most cohesive body of work to date. The 11 track album unfolds around Oh Lauren, providing the core of the album’s sentiment – how grief returns to us throughout life over and over. Embedded more than halfway through the album, Allred allows listeners to cohabit a meditative space through ambient textures, drones and ballads echoing the vocal sincerity of Arthur Russell, Daniel Johnston and the hypnotic storytelling of Robert Ashley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo truly reckon with The Beautiful World’s emotional position, listeners must understand the importance of the figure of Lauren, and the significance she has had throughout Allred’s life. Lauren’s suicide as a child provided the catalyst for Allred’s lifelong grief. But it was death anxiety and grief itself which provided Allred a link to a universal relationship that people have with each other and the world they live in. Impermanence and loss are the driving force behind all of our connections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe trance-like nature of the album perhaps comes from David Allred’s time sense – particularly when it comes to memory and trauma. Time becomes non-linear rather than a straight line – where one can repeat or return to the same themes but older and in a different frame of mind. Grief continues to manifest itself in life and despite personal growth, there will always be moments where the same feeling will manifest itself again. The album encourages listeners to sit with the concept of grief, and Allred is hopeful they can find comfort and learn to process it in a healing way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful World \u003c\/i\u003eis therefore heavily influenced by Allred’s work in therapy, particularly his relationship to writing music. In the past, Allred would be composing music as a means to dissociate from his life, but the album sees him engaging and connecting more authentically than ever with others and himself. Despite his prolific previous works being made in the company of others, Allred needed to step back from the scenes that he’s worked in to discover what he really wanted to create. 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