Pale FlowerJefre Cantu-Ledesma · 2015

pitchfork

“With a title carefully balanced between the factual and the figurative, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma's forthcoming album A Year With 13 Moons is supposed to be his attempt to disengage the delicate stuff of memory from sentimentalism. I'm not sure he's entirely succeeded on his own terms, because initial listens suggest an atmosphere that's no less melancholy for being abstracted and set at a slight remove”