A Year With 13 Moons

Mastered By – Stephan Mathieu

On A Year With 13 Moons, producer Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, who is also a bandmate of Liz Harris (aka Grouper) in the duo Raum, locates a spot between cool remove and fever dreams. It's hard to decide if this is the year's most fucked up ambient album, or its most bucolic noise record.

With his 2010 solo record Love Is a Stream, sound artist Jefre Cantu-Ledesma did more than just emulate the wild dreaminess of early shoegaze sounds with a series of pedals.

It's strange to think that it's been nearly five years since Jefre Cantu-Ledesma released Love is a Stream, his previous solo full-length LP...