American Undertow frays the seam between present and past, love and grief, and living and dying. “Slow as smoke, a lifetime in the vein,” we learn in the first track, and the music echoes that swirl, the restless undertow of being on the American road and going nowhere, of soul kissing a ghost, a kiss that tastes like death, a death that feels
American Undertow frays the seam between present and past, love and grief, and living and dying. “Slow as smoke, a lifetime in the vein,” we learn in the first track, and the music echoes that swirl, the restless undertow of being on the American road and going nowhere, of soul kissing a ghost, a kiss that tastes like death, a death that feels like love. “We’ve been dreaming down this highway, mapped by stars and heartbreak,” Turner sings. Listening opens and names that space, out on the American margins where some of us reside. It’s erotic, blue, foggy with a brew that tastes like “a graveyard of gin” whirlpooling in its glass, never fully empty, never wholly full. —Diane Seuss
Expected release: September 12, 2023