For fans of Johnny Coley, Sean McCann, Nicolas Jaar, sound collage, and the connections between psychology and non-human natural processes, Will You Try to Stand by Me and Look at Something Beautiful by Asha Sheshadri unpacks the traumatic chaos underpinning a seemingly inconsequential moment using an experimental spoken word songwriting style. Straightforward diary entries delivered over thin synthetic backgrounds spiral into explorations of bird flocking behavior, samples from decades-old sports broadcasts, and snippets of bizarre fiction, all of which loop and layer atop themselves to create pure aesthetic chaos. We start seeing the cause, the manifestation, and the effects of our actions appearing out of sequence, enabling rhizomatic connections that ignore time and open up new ways of understanding our innermost motivations. When the stream of consciousness turns its attention back upon consciousness itself, the vicious, convulsing cycle shoots unexpected shards of meaning into all directions, finding the bird behavior deep within our subconscious and creating community with football fans we will never meet.
