William Tyler - New Vanitas (RSD 2021) Hamish Hawk Bob Cranshaw’s reassuring upright bass

Bob Cranshaw’s reassuring upright bass

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A beautifully layered blend that is mirrored in the music he’s made

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LA-based rockers The Bronx return for their sixth studio album 'Bronx VI' which comes out worldwide on Cooking Vinyl August 27th

William Tyler - New Vanitas (RSD 2021) Hamish Hawk Bob Cranshaw’s reassuring upright bassThis is a Record Store Day 2021 release. The concept of vanitas in medieval art refers to the juxtaposition of macabre symbols of death with material ephemera in order to illustrate the impermanence of earthly things. What struck me about this was not the representation of death in a macabre morbid way, but rather that very sense of ephemerality and impermanence. Reading an article about the history of ephemera in art led me to the concept of vanitas,