(Barboza) Formerly of lovely post-rock outfit Emeralds, Mark McGuire officially announced last year he’d be leaving the group to pursue his solo career. Not that this was news, necessarily: The prolific McGuire has been making immaculate, swooning guitar-based compositions under his own name for years. At times flirting with the recently critically re-evaluated genre of New Age, at others going for the folksy electronica sound pioneered by Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden in the early ’00s, McGuire’s music occasionally wanders into white-washed, anodyne turf that’s been covered by many faceless bedroom loopers before. For the most part, however, the beauty of the guitar work and the lushness of the atmospherics manage to evoke bittersweet memories and quiet reflection, the way the best ambient can. With Jenny Hval.
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