Eric Arn - Higher Order - LP

8 tracks of finger-picking and flatpicking steel string work, and one lush, electric guitar drone-space.

"great, mostly acoustic album from one of our fave guitar wranglers. somewhere between renbourn & chadbourne, with some stylin' drone action tagged on at the end." - Byron Coley

"A really, really terrific new album on the Carbon label, the record's called Higher Order." - Gerard Cosloy, Can't Stop the Bleeding

"experimental flourishes that help make the album stand out from most of its peers, while also relating it to the recent works of the likes of Daniel Bachman and Wendy Eisenberg. Haunting, plaintive and excitingly multifarious, Higher Order is a record all solo guitar fans need to sink their teeth into." - Keith Hadad, Record Crates United

"mostly acoustic blues-folk infused set of solo material, partly improvised and partly composed. These songs run the gamut from buoyant, bucolic, fingerpicked transcendentalism to tetchy, twitchy, untethered shows of digital skill, with one space-age foray into electric guitar psychedelia at the end." - Jennifer Kelly, Dusted

"his evolving, individual vision and talent are on display with this new solo guitar joint from Carbon Records, Highest Order... Highest Order is cohesive and varied, Arn always finding new modes to explore. ... soaked in timeworn melodies that are an invitation into this quixotic sound world. Arn’s playing style is distinct, his own filter on a wide range of styles and sewn together with bits of ancient string and dried-out glue. So much of Highest Order is timeless and it’s that connective tissue that elevates it into something memorable." - Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis

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