Jestures [CD]

Atmosphere - Jestures [CD]

On Jestures, Atmosphere's sprawling new album, Slug digs into the friction of middle-aged domesticity and stability, uncovering the quiet tensions that shape creative life. Long past the belief that great art needs great pain, he challenges the trope that creativity must be born from trauma. Instead, Atmosphere's fifth release of the 2020s reflects a more grounded kind of struggle"one rooted in reflection, routine, and the work of becoming._x000B__x000B_The album's ambitious structure mirrors its introspection: 26 songs, each titled with a different letter of the alphabet and sequenced from A to Z. Even guest appearances follow suit"Evidence lands on Effortless, Kurious on Kilowatts, and Musab, Muja Messiah, and Mike the Martyr appear on Mash.  Many tracks are strikingly short"one or two verses at most"delivering sharp ideas with precision and restraint._x000B__x000B_More than a look back, Jestures is a meditation on movement and meaning. Slug weaves memory and present-day reality over Ant's richly textured beats, blending electro-glitch, warm twang, and cinematic drones. It's a mosaic of life's overlooked moments"how a partner's habits, a child's quirks, or a passing sound can reveal something new. What emerges is a story of progress, building toward a future defined by resilience and creative clarity.

01 : Asshole
02 : Baby
03 : Caddy
04 : Daley
05 : Effortless
feat. Evidence
06 : Furthermore
07 : Grateful
08 : Heavy Lifting
feat. Haphduzn
09 : Instrument
10 : Jester
11 : Kilowatts
feat. Kurious
12 : Locusts
13 : Mash
feat. Mike the Martyr,
Musab, and Muja Messiah
14 : Neptune

15 : Ophidiophobia
16 : Past
17 : Quicksand
18 : Really
19 : Sean
20 : Trying
21 : Used To
22 : Velour
23 : Westbound
24 : XXX
25 : Yearning
feat. Yoni Wolf of WHY?
26 : Zorro
feat. ZooDeVille