VERMONT REPRESENT! :) I really dont know how to describe this CD (which yes is about 2 years old, but i learned about it this year, so leave me alone!), maybe because its totally unique, I really dont know. And maybe because Khonnor was only I think 17 years old when he made this CD, at home, in the most basic ‘music studio’ you can imagine. Basically a kid screwing around with some equipment, some tape players, and a few random lyrics. The whole album sounds like a slow moving tidal wave of soft white noise, with haunting electronic samples drifting in & out in the background, but all in the realm of an acoustic folk album. It really is a creepy yet insanely beautiful album that I almost get the feeling that, if Sofia Coppola had heard this album, it would have been the entire soundtrack to ‘Lost in Translation’. One song called ‘Megans Present’ to this day gives me chills every time I hear it, and as I listen now, my jaw drops, especially knowing this came from a kid screwing around with some musical equipment. It’s a short song (as all are, another stroke of genius), and it changes tone in the middle with these sort of ‘yearning’ lyrics and this mellow techno melody that sounds like the skies opening up. This album takes some time, and even some patience, but its just incredibly beautiful. Can’t recommend it enough.

“Using only an old PC, a microphone from a ‘Learn Japanese’ boxset and a single low quality PC speaker, Connor creates something highly original…Dreamlike digitally manipulated guitar disruptions and wavering synths form the foundation for most of the tracks, as Khonnor frankly and openly charts the ups and downs of teenage love, pocket change and lost hazy nights. Khonnor’s music offers something different. The punk rock attitude, the seemingly innate understanding of distortion and electronic manipulation, the fresh and heartfelt emotion, the unhidden fragility and anticlimaxes of adolescence. This seventeen year old from Vermont, in his debut album, has compiled something so personal and original that its frightening to imagine where he might take us next.” – Boomkat