Photo via Dave Harrington’s Bandcamp

On Friday, Oct. 20, Dave Harrington will release his most sprawling project to date, a 27-track album, The Pictures. The new collection functions as a heady love letter to cinema, framing the artist’s eclectic tastes and presenting a silent nod to his father and family. It’s a journey through time and space, working through abstractions and arriving exactly where the artist intended the listener to go.

Harrington played every instrument on the impending set–from the guitar, which he uses to evoke homages to his guitar heroes, Bill Frisell and Jerry Garcia, with warped and twisted plucks and, at other times, earnest, heart-felt strums, in addition to a sprawling collection of percussion, drums, upright bass, keyboards, and his fretless Turkish banjo.

Film and television elements permeate the set and project in the form of notes to loved ones, haiku hymns for lost ones, and meditations on what it all might mean if we put it together. The end result is equal parts frenetic beat-dub mixtape and open-hearted “plays for the lovers” ballads. 

As a preview of what’s to come, the first single off the collection can be streamed now via Bandcamp. “I’m Not A Dream” taps into a cosmic soundscape of unabashed meditative energy fused with domineering recordings to evoke a similar feel to Big Audio Dynamites’ lighter contemplative work from the early 90s. Needless to say, the short presentation will keep the just-over-two-minute tune on repeat. Listen here.

Pre-order the impending album now.