Midnight Choir (New LP)

Label: Ruination Records Co.

"Midnight Choir, the second solo release from Chicago multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Matt Gold, borrows its title from a Leonard Cohen lyric. But where Cohen sang of “a drunk in a midnight choir,” stumbling home and singing in harmony with others, Gold found himself constructing the bones of his next record in complete solitude. Recorded and performed almost entirely by himself on the cusp of a Chicago winter, Midnight Choir presents Gold’s songwriting and production sensibilities in full effect, gracefully sprawling in all directions -- arriving at both a choir and a language of his own, in dialogue with itself throughout..."