I’ve been try­ing to write a review of Rudi Zygadlo’s amaz­ing debut album Great West­ern Lay­men for the past cou­ple weeks but have been strug­gling with how to describe this opus. It’s an immac­u­lately pro­duced vision, end­lessly inven­tive with com­po­si­tion and sound design and tinged with more than a lit­tle humor. Beyond these words I am not sure how to talk about some­thing that sounds like every­thing and noth­ing I’ve ever heard before. (more…)