A big best-seller on Magnatune, the second album from pianist Ehren Starks is both strikingly modern and completely evocative. Cleanly elegant piano compositions show great attention to both structure and melody, and Starks demonstrates deep fluency and depth of feeling for his instrument throughout. There's an internal logic to this music that calls to mind contemporary architectural forms, yet it's incredibly lyrical too—the streamlined poetics of a young master. Highly recommended.
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[hifilofi] 01-Lines Build Walls (3:54)
[hifilofi] 02-Amnesia (1:11)
[hifilofi] 03-No One Will Ever Know (4:22)
[hifilofi] 04-Paper Lights (3:48)
[hifilofi] 05-You are the You (3:42)
[hifilofi] 06-No Silence Please (2:50)
[hifilofi] 07-Run (3:38)
[hifilofi] 08-New Year's Love (3:27)
[hifilofi] 09-One Big Hope (4:50)
[hifilofi] 10-Tunnel Systems (5:18)
[hifilofi] 11-Leaving the Theatre (4:57)