Stream Armbruster’s Droning, Decaying, Utterly Gorgeous New Album Can I Sit Here

Connor Armbruster has a spectacular new album out today. Can I Sit Here finds the Troy, New York composer and violinist forgoing the acoustic sounds of his 2022 Dear Life Records debut Masses, recorded inside a church, in favor of distorted electric violin. The music takes many forms, incorporating elements of post-rock, noise-rock, shoegaze, and experimental classical in service of Armbruster’s unique vision. Many of these instrumentals could be mistaken for guitar, but the use of violin lends a slightly alien quality to the droning, decaying beauty.