Page McConnell has just released a new solo album entitled Something Will Land which is now available digitally and on audiophile-grade black vinyl via his own Keyed Records. The new album – which features a striking cover image by renowned conceptual artist John Baldessari – arrives just four years after 2021’s Maybe We’re The Visitors, marking the shortest gap between McConnell’s solo LPs to date.
Something Will Land features eight new ambient instrumental tracks crafted by McConnell almost immediately after finishing Maybe We’re The Visitors. This new release is the result of two funamental changes McConnell made to his recording process. He reconfigured his Burlington, VT studio so that, for the first time, he was able to play, record, and engineer piano pieces entirely by himself, with no one else in the room. McConnell then decided to blend the piano with a panoply of synthesizers after having portioned them in the past. Thus, he let himself be surrounded by electronic and acoustic sounds all at once, fully immersed in the instruments.
This new release sees beautiful, simple melodies embedded amid long-distance hums, anchors that give these drifts local gravity. “The Trees Were Blue” begins with a series of long, luminescent tones and scrambled signals, but, in the final third of this six-minute wonder, the piano marches triumphantly through the fog, as undaunted by the journey as a stranger’s smile. “Mystery Meat” calls to mind Brian Eno’s Another Green World, while “Borrowed Scenery” is a piece of perpetual ascendance.
The album arrives alongside a revealing profile of McConnell by writer Grayson Haver Currin in GQ.
PAGE MCCONNELL
SOMETHING WILL LAND
(Keyed Records)
Tracklist:
Side A
Amaranth
Borrowed Scenery
Something Will Land
Weightless
Side B
Mystery Meat
The Trees Were Blue
Octopi
Dropping In
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