I honestly don’t know how it came to be that I was following Carl Didur, or rather, signed up for his Bandcamp page, but one day I received a notification that he had a new album out. I don’t even regularly check out new releases from accounts I knowingly follow, but nonetheless I found myself giving his new album, Carl’s Dream, a listen and was enraptured by it.
I don’t know anything about him and there’s little to find out there on the Internet, other than that he hails from Toronto…and someone I know also knows one of the guest guitarists on the album (?!). That’s it. However, Carl’s Dream is a lush, warm and textured, largely wordless album that has an elemental simplicity to it, not unlike early Brian Eno. Fans of Atlas Sound/Bradford Cox will also like this, along with those who might be looking for a more grounded Boards of Canada sound.
- (apologies for the spelling mistake on Carl Didur’s name when this was first published!)
