Aaron Dooley 
Great to see RSTB faves Island House and Centripetal Force teaming up. IH issued Aaron Dooley’s last outing, Trapped In Purgatory, and the Denver bassist has been busy in the interim from the sounds of The International Disassociation Of:. Like its predecessor, the new record is an album rooted in off-the-cuff improvisation that feels like it could have been meticulously planned. Despite its precision, there’s a relaxed air to the record that speaks to the assembled ensemble here, a new outfit that doesn’t make a lot of overlap with Purgatory’s crew. The players tack into Dooley’s winds with skill and assuredness, sliding from jazz to ambient country takes with wonderful ease. There’s a halo of haze around Dooley’s works like steam off the scalp in cold weather — a binary of engine blaze and atmospheric chill that holds the listener tight.
Pedal steel soaks the album, lending the whole record a kind of dreamed quality as it quivers beneath a strident percussive push from Diego Lucero. Atop the beating heart that Lucero and Dooley drive, the record’s heroic moments come from Gabriella Zelek’s sax, with lines that twist around closer “Jamais Vu”, and Gavin Susalski’s Trumpet driving the opener. “Reward of Consequence” is scared by Aesop Adams guitar leads, pulling the listener out of the dreamscape for a more visceral moment. Cooper Dickerson’s steel playing melds with Zuri Barnes violin. Both become something of a hallucinatory accent to the record, tying up the torn ends into bittersweet bows. The new record is Dooley’s best yet, and a good reason to keep your ears on mountain time, soaking up the simmer and swimming in the altitude.