Drone veteran and Root Strata boss Jefre Cantu-Ledesma returns with his long-awaited new full-length.

If you’ve not come across Jefre Cantu-Ledesma before you’re missing out – he’s been part of more great music in the last decade than most artists manage in a lifetime. A founding member of underrated experimental post-rock outfit Tarentel and The Alps, he’s also boss of the excellent Root Strata imprint and an impressive solo artist. His solo work came to a crushing head with 2010’s Love is a Stream, and now Cantu-Ledesma is finally ready to follow it up with A Year With 13 Moons.

Continuing its predecessors infatuation with shoegaze textures and searing noise, A Year With 13 Moons is an album of bittersweet love songs produced using electric guitar, modular synthesizer and drum machine. The first taster ‘Pale Flower’ can be heard below, and it’s a corker.

A Year With 13 Moons will be released on February 9/10 by Mexican Summer.

Tracklist:

01 The Last Time I Saw Your Face
02 Love After Love
03 Disappear
04 Mirror Of Past & Future
05 Interiors
06 Pale Flower
07 The Twins Shadows
08 Agate Beach
09 The Spree
10 Early Autumn
11 A Portrait Of You At Nico’s Grave, Grunewald, Berlin (for Bill K.)
12 Remembering
13 Görlitzer Park
14 Along The Isar
15 At The End Of Spring
16 Remains