Mutable Set Blake Mills
As a Producer Blake Mills has helped shape albums for Perfume Genius, John Legend, Fiona Apple and the GRAMMY-winning ‘Sound & Color’ by Alabama Shakes. As a solo artist now on album number four, he has crafted an atmospheric sound that maintains a rich palette of warm, acoustic instrumentation. His vocals tend towards whispered quietude, instead allowing his instruments to build intimacy like on the sparse middle eight of ‘My Dear One’ where a bare percussive beat leads into simple plucked guitar. The highlight, ‘Money Is The One True God’, is a stripped Blues that simmers with a threatened explosion that never comes. It expertly shows Mills’ craft over pared-back compositions that retain depth through their pacing and rich instrumentation.