Dissection Maps by Old Saw

Within every scene of a lonely gas station in the desert, a defunct tourist trap off a byway, or a cracked parking lot in the suburbs breathes a self-propagating American spirit, a being built on unfulfilling consumption. While Dissection Maps by Old Saw may not portray this underlying energy as constructive or even as beautiful, we find a vastness and a power in this musical representation that hits very close to home. Impossibly wide landscapes inhabited by looping folk instruments and densely atmospheric drones tell us the story of a society of blind ambition, a continual urge towards expansion before unsustainability inevitably begets tragedy. Despite the constant business of the sound, each musical element expends immense effort to pace in large circles, showing the frivolity of this striving as the vastness once again swoops in to consume all. Gradually, the spiritual expanse of this being overtakes the physical world, setting its goals beyond all material reality and crushing the earth in the process.