Here comes Auguste Arthur Bondy out of the wrath of the California wildfires toting Enderness, his first album in eight years. “Images of Love” is an intoxicatingly spare, private-press-R&B-style affair built on skittering percussion, warm synthesizer and a locked bass riff. Bondy’s weathered tenor tells of surrender, death, and the nuances of companionship. That synth doubles back and looms larger midway through the track. And with a quick snap at the end, the Lafayette County gloam slips into true nightfall and all that comes with it. There’s a truck cruising 278 with this one on repeat, broken taillight be damned. words / j steele
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