We live in an age of multitudes. Our emotions today tilt from joy to horror to humour with the flick of a doom-scrolling finger. Likewise, the art of this era has started to reflect this boundaryless mania. See the multiverse trope in cinema and pop music’s embrace of darker themes and avant-garde producers. Recent cultural history could even be viewed as an arms race of increased emotional complexity; from modernist sincerity to postmodern scepticism to contemporary multiplicities.
These sorts of oscillating moods are something Clothesline from Hell (the solo project of Toronto multi-instrumentalist Adam LaFramboise) utilises with intuitive aplomb. The accessible but gently complex music he comes up with…

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