Laysongs LP + MP3 Bundle exclusive

Laysongs LP + MP3 Bundle exclusiveChris Thiles Laysongs is his first truly solo album: just Thile, his voice, and his mandolin, on new recordings of six original songs and three covers, all of which contextualize and banter with his ideas about spirituality. Recorded in a converted upstate New York church during the pandemic, Laysongs features the three part Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth, which was inspired by C. S. Lewiss The Screwtape Letters; a song Thile wrote about Dionysus;

The album was produced by Jack Splash (Kendrick Lamar

was produced by Tuttle and Jerry Douglas and features collaborations with Sierra Hull

Wilco’s 2002 Nonesuch debut

the sibling harmonies still graceful

Robert Plants label debut

"Both are extraordinary

" Rob Moose of yMusic adds: "It was as much a thrill to hear songs emerge organically over sections of intricate chamber music as it was satisfying to strip songs of the instrument that created them in order to craft new connective tissue

bravely genre-blurring album

marks the band’s debut album as the duo of Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor

dramatic modernism to give dimension to the film's portrayal of a murderously devious child

Jazzwise calls it "astonishing

and Amidon’s wife