Album Review: Autre Ne Veut - Age Of Transparency

Arthur Ashin wants you to see right through him. Age Of Transparency is the third full-length album from the American vanguard artist, conceptualised around the idea that honesty has become commodified.

In his idealistic view, being an artist is more about acknowledging the inevitable failure in representing your truest self. This album, the second instalment in an incomplete trilogy, was heavily deconstructed after its original recording with a jazz band and then reassembled in an attempt to replicate this artificiality. Despite the jarring electronic bursts Ashin scatters throughout these songs, his glass-shattering vocal performance holds it all together in an intimate balance. It's an abrasive listen, but feels positively transcendental by the time it finishes.