Bibiel Hears Things: Mary Lattimore & Mac McCaughan – “IV”

Hey people! For today I chose to feature quite an improvisational, experimental piece. It comes from a 2019 album called “New Rain Duets”, which is a collaboration between two American musicians, Mary Lattimore and Mac McCaughan, who might seem like a rather unlikely duo as their musical backgrounds are quite distinct from one another. Mary Lattimore is an amazing harpist who does the most wonderful and weird things with her instrument, and I’ve featured her music many times before in this series, including in collaboration with other artists, as she has worked on very many collaborative albums with musicians from all sorts of genres. Mac McCaughan is best known as singer, songwriter, guitarist and frontman of the famous indie rock band Superchunk. But it’s not his singing and songwriting, or even his guitar skills, that he brings to this album – it’s a whole bunch of different synths. The album consists of four unnamed tracks or movements, and the whole thing has a very abstract…