Rural Route No. 2

When we last checked in with Kyle Bobby Dunn, the young NYC-based composer had just issued Fervency, whose hot-blooded title was at odds with its chill majesty. Reminiscent of William Basinski and Stars of the Lid, his patient drones for electric guitar and chamber instruments were full of movement and detail, yet throughout all the tiny changes, an uncanny stillness prevailed. Next, he issued the career retrospective A Young Person's Guide to Kyle Bobby Dunn, which paired Fervency with older material in the same blankly teeming vein. With the title, Dunn lampooned his own premature bid for archival relevance, although it wouldn't be hard to mistake Guide for the unearthed work of some obscure old post-minimalist. His new work, the Rural Route No. 2 EP, suggests that he's gotten tired of impeccable stasis, and it's his most approachable music to date.

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