Oli Arditi — one of my favorite music writers — chose Astral Law as one of his 12 albums of the year. Here’s what he had to say:
This is an album of experimental guitar sounds, often constructed around Beaudreau’s instrumental skills, but equally likely to foreground aleatory elements such as the sounds of accidental contact with the strings or body of the instrument, or environmental sounds such as passing traffic. Where the focus is on melody, various strategies are employed to disrupt a conventional response. The result of all this is not to make something difficult or forbidding, but to focus the attention on the act of listening, and to share Beaudreau’s pure love of sound. He happens to be a guitarist, but he seems to be a man who experiences the world through his ears, and this album represent his experience in a way that is certainly challenging, but is also highly engaging, and to my ears, beautiful.
Many thanks, Oli! Some other very interesting titles listed too: have a look here: oliverarditi.com.
And of course you can listen to the album yourself
