Whole Wide World LP

The Body and Cel Genesis spent about two years building Whole Wide World’s eight songs from two different engines: electronic beds from Cel Genesis and live drumming that got torn apart and reassembled afterward, with Lee Buford and Nick Cowman both behind kits to give the record its two-drummer spine. That is a strange way to collaborate, more demolition than duet, and it mostly explains why nothing here sits still. Thrill Jockey released it, tracked at Machines with Magnets in Rhode Island with engineer Seth Manchester, plus additional sessions in California run by Andrew Oswald.