Fool’s Errand by Theadoore

For fans of Don Caballero, Moribet, outsider folk, out of body experiences, and chasing that romantic dragon even if it kills you, Fool’s Errand by Theadoore tells tales of longing with a voice dripping in tension, energy, and whimsy. This member of equally exciting experimental indie band Houndsteeth branches out here with an unmistakably individual style, pulling math rock guitar tones together with free jazz improvisation and linear folk songwriting to assemble one expansive story arc across the album. Our protagonist struggles through a feeling of entrapment in the body, an intense alienation which only diminishes in the warm embrace of romantic love, making any uncertainty in said love all the more distressing. Fittingly, a disembodied spirituality lingers behind the entire record, creating songs with almost no cohesive danceable rhythm which instead form an endless unpredictable maze, luring us deeper into our minds and farther from our bodies. Dissonance swarms our minds as we collide back with material reality, revealing why we chase bodily pleasures and the limits of our mental wanderings from within this lonely flesh.