Dislocatia is a truly beguiling song cycle that contains multitudes. In Liam Singer’s music, the prosaic and the magical are two sides of the same dusty coin. Produced by Scott Solter, and featuring vocals from Boxharp’s Wendy Allen, Dislocatia is rich in wondrous, resonant details. These fantastical song-stories carry the listener skyward like a clockwork cloud. Instrumental ‘On Earth a Wandering Stranger Was I Born’ opens this stunning album in true style, layering piano, harpsichord and theremin into a dizzying whirl, before the swooningly beautiful ‘The Brief Encounter’ introduces Liam’s tremulous vocals. Wendy Allen takes the lead on the aural zoetrope ‘Leave the World to Those Who Care’, while single ‘Winter Weeds’ exudes a striking minimalism and melancholic romanticism that are typical of the album as a whole. Heartbreaking ballad ‘Bellingham, WA and the Four Green Doors Beyond’ bleeds into the disorientating tonal cascades of ‘Morton Feldman Holding Notes for Eternity’, and sparse, elegiac closer ‘Stinson Beach’ gently carries the listener back down to earth, ready to be swept up again by Dislocatia’s intoxicating melodic charms. It’s rare to find such arresting compositional talent married not only to an Innate sense of melody and emotion, but also to a keen sense of texture and atmosphere. Dislocatia manages to merge these elements together and, more importantly, blur any lines that divide them. Liam Singer’s alchemical compositional process transforms the songs into a whole that transcends simple descriptors.