Shooting Star [LP]

Golden Apples - Shooting Star [LP]

Following the "rich jangle and big, well-developed songs" (Bandcamp) of 2023's Bananasugarfire, Edling sought to deconstruct his creative process by centering collaboration instead of a more solitary pursuit in songwriting, even as personal matters made isolation a more natural instinct. He describes taking time to make notes of the ways, timing and forms in which songs came to him in the process of demoing the record, and regularly questioning if his approach was like that of watching a pot of water boila or waiting for a bolt of light to appear in the sky. In many ways, Shooting Star is an appeal to the muse, a record of songs about writing songsa born from Edlingas desire to trust his instincts despite the posturings of inner demons and creative roadblocks, and to celebrate the little wins along the way._x000B__x000B_The result is a sprawling new work packed to the brim with playful eccentricities and dynamism, one that owes as much of its inspiration to mid-century folkies like Michael Hurley and Karen Dalton as it does to alt rock of the nineties like Yo La Tengo and Stereolab. Shooting Star is a constellation of influences, experiences, reckoningswith the state of the world, with others, with creativity, with oneselfwith no two songs created in the same way. Instead of holing up in a recording studio, the creation of the record was formed by a patchwork of collaborations in a variety of recording locales, all which were later alchemized by mix engineer Matthew Schimelfenig.