MATT JENCIK & MIDWIFE "Never Die" LP
Record Label - Relapse
Despite the outright denial in its title, death is present in every one of the songs onĀ Never Die, the collaborative album fromĀ Midwifeās Madeline JohnstonĀ andĀ Matt JencikĀ (of Implodes,Ā Don Caballero, and Slintās live band).Ā JencikĀ held the tenderest thought imaginable when he came up with that phraseāNever Dieāthe fact that the people he loves eventually would, a certainty that feels impossible and remote, until the day it absolutely doesnāt.Ā Never DieĀ representsĀ JencikāsĀ desperate bid to hold onto everyone he loves, to keep them on Earth so fiercely that they might enter the grave with claw marks on their skin. Johnston, who recognizes the grace of mortality (and who, asĀ MidwifeĀ once sang: āI donāt wanna live forever,ā over and over) serves as the spiritual guide for the album, transmuting the fear of death into an incentive to live more keenly and dearly.
Following a number of ambient drone instrumental albums,Ā JencikĀ felt the need to set himself a new creative challenge: to write vocal-heavy songs. He worked on them alone in his basement, recording directly to a four-track cassette. He sent those demos to a different collaborator to tinker with before that partnership eventually dissolved. Then, he thought ofĀ Madeline: the way her voice tended to glower in her songs, as well as her commitment to minimalism, which fell squarely within the projectās aesthetic and spiritual impulses. āI was immediately drawn to what she was doing,āĀ JencikĀ says. In both of their work,Ā JencikĀ andĀ JohnstonĀ understand minimalism as a vehicle for enormous, desperate and universal emotions. Entire worlds come in and out of existence between each of their sparse notes; a great breadth of feeling is bedded into the simple structure of their songs.
Never DieĀ offers a calm confrontation with the dour inevitability that bookends our lives. When the fact of death looms over life, it tends to denature every experience we have and every relationship we know weāll eventually have to forfeit back to the Earth. No one, no matter how hard we love, makes it out of this alive thing. But we feel anyway. And we love anyway. And we sing anyway. Here,Ā JencikĀ andĀ JohnstonĀ have sung ādieā over and over, snowglobing life in the process.
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