Ava Mendoza plays these songs. She makes them sing. Her technique is impeccable, but her playing is astonishingly expressive. She doesn't just bend blue notes; she wads them up into a ball and throws them up against a wall. She manipulates raw lightning, giving us a sound that is fluorescent and powerful enough to leave a trace of ozone in the air. Mendoza knows what she does better than almost anyone else on the planet, which is tell stories with her guitar.
A split release with Relative Pitch Records. Purchase the CD version HERE: relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com/album/new-spells.
1. Sun Gun
2. New Ghosts
3. Ampulex Compressa
4. Apart From
5. Don't Look
Recorded by Ava Mendoza
Mixed by Eli Crews and Ava Mendoza
Mastered by Mikey Young
Tracks 1 and 2 composed by Ava Mendoza (BMI)
Track 3 composed by Devin Hoff, appears courtesy of Jessie the Dog Songs (ASCAP)
Track 4 composed by Trevor Dunn (published by Convulsive Beauty Music (ASCAP)
Track 5 composed by John Dikeman
All tracks © 2021, Ava Mendoza
Original artwork by Dylan Marcus McConnell / Tiny Little Hammers
