David Allred The Beautiful World

David Allred is a prolific composer and producer based in Portland, Oregon. His new album The Beautiful World, out January 24th via Erased Tapes, captures an enriched, realised understanding of why he composes in the first place. Dedicated to the expression of existential themes such as death, grief, longing and loss, the album’s core theme centres around the suicide of a young girl Lauren, who was a family friend to Allred. For as long as he could remember, Allred always created music out of a kind of dissociative state which he finds alluringly easy to lapse into. A repetition of a motif is usually where he begins composing. But unlike his previous works, The Beautiful World firmly has one foot in reality and is deeply intertwined with Allred’s relationships, past and present. “In Allred, we have a new master of minimalism.” Loud & Quiet “...crystalline reverberations and finely balanced symphonic/sparse dimensions.” **** MOJO “Part orchestral, part experimental - all wonderful.” Electronic Sound