Primitives

Primitives, Sellers# debut as Bayonne, is a rich, complex work, the kind with no clear rock parallel. In its winding, maze-like structures are hints of both Steve Reich and Owen Pallett, each instrument working a single melodic pattern over and over and over, as Sellers threads his soft, reedy voice between them. On songs like #Appeals,# the effect is hypnotic notes from a piano crash down like spilled marbles from a bucket, as Sellers# ringing-bell vocals swing back and forth between them. The end result is spellbinding music, meticulously-crafted songs where each tiny piece locks into another, and hundreds of them joined together create a breathtaking whole # like dots in a Seurat, or tiny bones in a dinosaur skeleton.