The Built World

Author: George Albon

Publisher: Blazevox (2025)

"In this 'nomad music' at once oblique and demotic, worlds come into and out of being. Experimental neighborhoods, queer provinces. Formally immaculate former places: actual sites once occupied by mobile homes, yellow concrete, dust. Not absent now but full of vibrant green and rain puddles, under sky that 'gathers like cloud.' In these stellar post-punk Schuyleresque meditations, an island metamorphoses into pearl, and 'all our vocations are semi-permeable.' Everywhere these carefully built temporary worlds, this delicate slipshod multiplicity of places. George Albon is right there, he attends it—with focus, clarity, and love. Why what is shelter because what is not."

—Jason Morris