Beginningless LP

Anna Butterss, John Raymond, and Ben Lumsdaine cut Beginningless live over just two days in a Los Angeles studio, which tells you how much they trusted each other walking in. The trio points to Jon Hassell and the band Fly as their reference points, splitting the difference between straight acoustic playing and studio-built effects the way those touchstones did. Butterss has already built a name as a bassist people call for jazz, indie-rock, and session work, and on this Northern Spy release that same chemistry carries the record start to finish.