JOYFULTALK returns with its third album for Constellation; another vibrantly divergent
stylistic take on the analog materiality and sensibility of electronic composer-producer
Jay Crocker, whose previous two records forged trance-inducing polyrhythmic intricacy,
each from a distinct angle and sound palette, each enlisting a single instrumental
collaborator. Familiar Science rallies contributions from a larger cast of musicians into a
looser, cosmic recombinant combo-still shot through with JOYFULTALK's singular
mixing desk kinetics, but this time deep-diving into gnarled and twisted, spliced and
diced out-jazz. Crocker draws inspiration from 1980s M-Base music and Ornette
Coleman's harmolodic funk period, while his own prior history as an improv guitarist
also resurfaces for the first time in many years-an element in this polyvalent artist's
chemistry set that hasn't appeared prominently in his own music for over a decade.
