At the Foot of Nameless Roads

By now, just about everyone is familiar with the mighty Starving Weirdos and their otherworldly junkyard drones. Last year, the world was introduced to another band of mystics from the Weirdos camp called RV Paintings. One of the constant threads from both of those bands is the inimitable Brian Pyle. Ensemble Economique is Pyle's debut foray into the solo forest. At the Foot of Nameless Roads is a masterpiece of an album, filled to the brim with cacophonous melodies, meditative auditory chants, and hypnotic shambolic rhythms. If you love the Weirdos, you will be all over this. At the Foot of Nameless Roads is one hell of a first statement. Pyle has concocted an absolute gem. This is dense music that begs for deeper inspection. Each space, each note carefully chosen and etched into glass. Ensemble Economqiue is music for the darkest nights, the pinkest mornings, and everything in between. This is vivid, haunting music that leaves a trail of gold in its wake.