Milwaukee musician Jay Flash is off to a punctual start for the new year. Yesterday he released his fourth full-length, Collapsing, for free streaming and name-your-price download on his Bandcamp site. The album is cleaved into two halves, an "acoustic" side and an "electronic" side, though the division between the two isn't quite as black-and-white as that labeling. There are plenty of electronics on the first side, and there's a distinct, singer-songwritery bent to a couple of Flash's second-half compositions.What strikes this time out isn't Flash's trademark experimentation, but his composure. In a few short years, the songwriter has evolved from recording jittery, sweaty-palmed folk songs and small-scale electronic abstractions to making assured, steady-voiced statements. This is his most commanding record yet.
You can stream Collapsing below.
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