Shabason and Krgovich turn Four Days in June into a backyard campfire with saxophone smoke

Joseph Shabason and Nicholas Krgovich’s Four Days in June is almost too perfectly titled for today’s digest. Reviewed on 18 June, the record reportedly leans into soft-focus 1990s country twang while summoning the feeling of a backyard campfire. That is a lovely shift for two Toronto musicians known for subtle detail and atmosphere. Shabason’s saxophone language has always been good at turning air into emotion, while Krgovich’s songwriting often treats softness as a serious craft. Together, they seem to be building a record that does not chase grandeur. It chases a time, a temperature, a short stretch of days that becomes larger in memory than it was on the calendar. Four Days in June sounds like a collaboration for windows open at dusk, when the conversation gets slower and the melody does not need to prove anything.

Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/shabason-krgovich-four-days-in-june/