Droneroom - Whatever Truthful Understanding (2022) [Hi-Res]

Self-appointed “Cowboy of Drone” Blake Edward Conley creates music rooted in the loam of Kentucky: plaintive and lush, high, lonesome, and bleak. Under the moniker Droneroom, Conley dips from a palette loaded with the venomous gnash of the Fender Telecaster, but with Whatever Truthful Understanding, Conley unplugs and looks inward. An arsenal of pedals and field recordings add heft, while seedbeds of drone sprout without notice. A choir of crickets (“God Does Not Help Those Who Are Invisible”) and crunchy radio static (“Just One More Thin”’) all bring snippets of humdrum life into an otherworldly landscape. Recorded during Conley’s relocation from Louisville to Las Vegas, his ambling cross-country journey can not only be heard, but felt.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Droneroom - God Does Not Help Those Who Are Invisible (10:09)
1.02 - Droneroom - Just One More Thing (10:41)
1.03 - Droneroom - Mojave Pastoral (12:49)
1.04 - Droneroom - We Are the Creatures This Desert Makes Us (10:29)
1.05 - Droneroom - Beyond the Horse Gate (16:38)