Noah Gundersen – ‘A Pillar Of Salt’
The declaration of “This city was built on the back of a spirit I don’t feel anymore” makes for a rather grim outlook at first glance but ‘A Pillar Of Salt’ isn’t intentionally morose, at least that’s not what it’s trying for. Instead, the fifth album from Seattle-based Noah Gundersen is harshly retrospective, something Gundersen has been open about after he took a year away to escape the grimness of the pandemic: “A shallow grave for a lot of ghosts. Including my own”. In spite of the way things are, ‘A Pillar of Salt’ calls upon the way things were, good and bad, in the hopes of looking forward to the way things could be, with all the haunting ambient electronic-folk flair that Noah has come to be known for. The scene is set right from the get go in ‘Laurel and Hardy’, the opening ambien...