The Brisbane-born, now London-based singer-songwriter MF Tomlinson builds on the experimental base of an acclaimed sophomore album and earlier EP releases to reinforce evermore progressive, art rock-inclined sights.
A sense of freedom underscores the Australian troubadour’s third album, an in-part continuation of the freeform jazz and folk leanings that powered We Are Still Wild Horses, with its breeziness traded for cathartic passages delving into Tomlinson’s internal psyche and fluctuating spatiality. Where guitar solos pierced the latter record’s baroque sonic backdrops, Die to Wake Up from a Dream tacks to a doggedly disorientating vision that sees ambitious soundscapes dialed up to eleven, notably a nine-minute title track that…