Ben Chasny emerges with his most bucolic and pretty Six Organs of Admittance album to date

In 2015 Ben Chasny, sole constant member of the long-running Six Organs of Admittance, created what he calls the hexadic system in an attempt to break familiar patterns and habits in his playing and writing. The rules, which revolve around the dealing of a deck of cards in relation to notes on the guitar, injected a jarring, unstable quality into his music, first in an electric configuration on Hexadic and then, with even greater displacement, in a solo acoustic singer-songwriter mode on Hexadic II.…