Thurston Moore Flow Critical Lucidity Import LP (Black Vinyl)

The Daydream Library Series record label has confirmed Thurston Moore's 2024 full-length album, Flow Critical Lucidity, his ninth solo recording. Some of the songs were written and arranged in Europe and the United Kingdom and include lyrical references to their environments and inspired by nature, lucid dreaming, modern dance and Isadora Duncan. The album was arranged at La Becque in Switzerland and recorded at Total Refreshment Studios in London in 2022, and mixed at Hermitage Studios in London with Margo Broom in 2023.

Flow Critical Lucidity comes from a lyric in the single "Sans Limites," and the album sleeve cover art features Jamie Nares' "Samurai Walkman" - a helmet befitted with tuning forks. Jamie Nares (born in Great Britain) is a lifelong friend of Thurston Moore from his New York no wave days, and the two have often collaborated in art and music.

In 2023, Thurston released two singles: the energetic Isadora Duncan-inspired "Isadora" with a music video starring Sky Ferreira. "Hypnogram," which the press called "one of the most intensely cerebral cuts Moore has ever released, [in which] he blends the more melodic moments of his former band with the layered, heady flourishes of his bassist Deb Googe's main band, My Bloody Valentine. Emphatically conveying the feeling of dreams, the new material has fans excited for what the American has in store with his next album."

In April of 2024, Thurston shared the stirring Earth Day anthem "Rewilding." The musician delivered chilling lines as he ruminated on the removal of the human hand from nature. Moore sang about renewal, and a period for friends of the Earth to sleep and realize a natural way by "coralmorphologically dreaming." The musician said the U.K.'s rewilding movement aspires to reduce human influence on ecosystems. The players on Flow Critical Lucidity: Thurston Moore (vocals, guitar); Deb Googe (bass); Jon Leidecker (electronics); James Sedwards (piano, organ, guitar, glockenspiel); Jem Doulton (percussion); Laetitia Sadier (backing vocals on "Sans Limites").

The whole record feels hauled from a dream space where you're laid on your back letting the sky sink down to you. It's 'Shadow of a Doubt' the album. The central track 'Hypnogram' glimmers like the leaking embers of a low winter sun. When the light hits just right, so does this record. It's been dropped perfectly for autumn's seasonal shift with tumbling golden rays dispersing into purpled blue skies. That's true now and I think it'll be true in thirty-six years' time.