Closing the Circle
Until The Ribbon Breaks New Album: V I S I T O R Album Review by Spencer Ide In a month when fellow Welshman, John Cale releases a new album, POPitcal Illusion , the creative force that is Pete Lawrie Winfield operating under the recording name of Until The Ribbon Breaks re-surfaces with V I S I T O R, his third studio album. The two artists, Cale and Winfield, have a lot more in common than origins in the land of song. Both explore how electronic technology can be used to form pleasing new sound waves, both have poetic sensibilities and each of these artists enjoy exploring structure and form in their pop music-friendly compositions. From the first moments of For The Birds you sense that V I S I T O R is going to be an exceptional album. A bit of rustling old school tech recording tape begins the album, as Winfield relaunches himself with, as he describes it, “…renewed emotional and creative clarity.” ...