Modern Yesterdays - 2020 Cantaloupe label 11-track 180 gram LP

Internationally renowned guitarist and composer Kaki King joins the Cantaloupe Music family with her latest album, Modern Yesterdays. Co-produced with sound designer Chloe Alexandra Thompson and recording engineer Arjan Miranda, it's her first full-length studio project since the 2015 release of The Neck Is A Bridge to the Body (bursting with masterclass talent, as reviewed in PopMatters), and her first to be recorded almost entirely on acoustic guitar. Rich in post-classical, jazz, folk and blues-flavored motifs, as well as electronic and electro-acoustic influences, Modern Yesterdays mines a poignant, meditative arc that not only fits the mood of these turbulent times, but once again establishes King as a tirelessly inventive composer whose imagination extends well beyond the sonic limits of her chosen instrument.

There's a definite covid aesthetic that informs the album's title, as King explains. We talk about the before, or back before the outbreak, and that was six months ago, she says. Time has barely passed. So I think there is a bit of a looking back that were all doing in every way about what we miss what was good, what was bad, all of it. Were all yearning in some ways for our modern yesterday, and in some ways saying well, there is clearly going to be a modern tomorrow too.

Allmusics Thom Yurek reviewed the album stating "Even by King's standards, Modern Yesterdays is remarkable: It extends the guitar's role in contemporary music to one of nearly limitless possibility without leaving the realm of deeply pleasurable listening."

Vinyl is pressed onto 180 gram - picture cover.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1    Default Shell    3:32
2    Can't Touch This Or That Or You Or My Face    4:08
3    Teek    4:32
4    Godchild    4:55
5    Rhythmic Tiny Sand Ball Patterns    4:22

Side 2:
1    Puzzle Me-You    4:26
2    Final State    4:33
3    Lorlir    2:50
4    Sanitized, Alone    4:19
5    Sei Sei    3:52
6    Forms Of Light And Death    4:45