ALEX ZHANG HUNGTAI - Dras LP Blackened the mood remains rooted in

the mood remains rooted in a sober and unflinching self-reflection

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With the banjo and the other wind instruments acting as mediators

paranoid lyrics and guitar are flawlessly arranged over neo-classical dirges to create their strongest effort yet

ALEX ZHANG HUNGTAI - Dras LP Blackened the mood remains rooted inAlex Zhang Hungtai stands in stillness on 'Dras', but it's the kind of stillness that contains entire ranges of possibility. Recorded in 2019 inside Montreal's Saint Joseph Oratory (right before a piano demolition, no less), these nine pieces sat dormant on his hard drive through pandemic years until something finally clicked. What emerges now feels like watching someone trace the contours of their own interior landscape, each melodic line a careful