If there was any doubt that Seattles Rafael Anton Irisarri is an emerging master of lush, ambient quietude, his second album as The Sight Below should erase it. The ghost of shoegaze lingers throughout the seven unhurried tracks of It All Falls Apart. Its an album of glacial drifts and quivering tones, realized with laptops and synths as much as subtle guitar shaped by looping, delay, and reverb. A shrouded cover of Joy Divisions New Dawn Fades is sung at a husky distance by Tiny Vipers. Irisarri will also debut a set under his own name, a trio with Kelly Wyse of the Seattle Pianist Collective and drummer Phil Petrocelli. Makes sure youre there in time to behold the results. With Jóhann Jóhannsson, Rafael Anton Irisarri. DOUG WALLEN
Wed., May 12, 7:30 p.m., 2010
