Kim Myhr - You | Me Myhr

The Guardian 80

Myhr
(Hubro)

Here’s an album that feels beautifully out of season. Norwegian composer/experimental guitarist Kim Myhr is a master of slow-morphing rhythms and sun-dappled textures that seem to glow from the inside. His electronics are mellow and inviting; his 12-string acoustic guitar has a loose, blissed-out twang. With just two long tracks (A and B on the vinyl release) that loop and shimmy around a single simple hook, You | Me has a 60s psych-folk vibe and something of the roving thrum of early Steve Reich or Terry Riley’s In C, or indeed Julius Eastman’s joyous Femenine. Three drummers – Ingar Zach, Hans Hulbækmo and The Necks’ Tony Buck – add spangling commentary and tranquil momentum and occasionally drift into sombre eddies. It’s an album to bolster the spirits and ground the nerves: travelling music for big-sky vistas.