On his third Pyroclastic album, banjo and guitar terror Brandon Seabrook delivers a surprise in cohesion and musical expansion. the string slayer, usually revels and shapeshifts between free jazz, noise, prog, hard, and vanguard rock, and avant bluegrass. On Hellbent Daydream, however, a quartet offering produced by David Breskin, is an iconoclastic approach in which modernist chamber music, avant jazz and folk create a hybridized sound that contains all the aforementioned styles in an intense cinematic approach. Seabrook plays guitar and banjo, with bassist Henry Fraser, violinist Erica Dicker and pianist/keyboardist Elias Stemeseder. These seven compositions offer improv alongside uncharacteristic formalism.
Opener “Name Dropping is the Lowest Form…