The sad truth about memory is that it’s inherently unreliable: when you access it, you’re not remembering the event itself so much as the last time you recalled it. It’s this malleability of history that John Calvin Abney wanted to focus on when it came to his seventh LP, Transparent Towns. “Damn the dust storm / Blowing through my head,” he bemoans the fuzziness of recollection on the title track before equally lamenting all the empty words that go unspoken: “Damn the days / We let go left unsaid.”
‘Last Chance’ finds Abney meditating on the passage of time, and while he’s got enough insight to feel the good times for what they are in the moment (“Struck by suspicion / I’d never feel what I felt then”), that doesn’t mean…

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