Doveman: “The Conformist”

What Thomas Bartlett lacks in musical imagination, he very nearly makes up for in his dogged commitment to a very personal — and very quiet — vision. It’s a little trick he likely picked up from his friends and frequent collaborators in The National; on his latest album The Conformist, released once again under his Doveman banner, Bartlett hones in on a single aesthetic — one is almost inclined to call it a formula — and he simply works it, less interested in expanding his approach outward than burrowing further inward, mining his chosen sound space for everything in it.

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