Jaye Jayle, Evan Patterson's Americana-noir project, has opened a new chapter for the Young Widows frontman and the newest arc in the Jaye Jayle narrative is the band's sophomore LP No Trail And Other Unholy Paths. Beginning as a flurry of 7" singles housed in bare-bones dust jackets, Jaye Jayle has evolved into a captivating persona alterna. Imbuing negative space with hallucinatory mantras, Patterson has embraced his strengths as a storyteller while trekking into thickets of unmarked sonic terrain. With his cohorts Todd Cook on bass, Neal Argabright on drums, and Corey Smith on auxiliary instrumentation, Jaye Jayle unfurls a tapestry of neo-folk economy, krautrock-esque repetition, skid row's darkest blues, Midwestern indie rock's nihilism, and Tangerine Dream's analog oscillations. Produced by Dean Hurley. Patterson notes that the album bears no specific beginning or ending_Side A and Side B are meant to be interchangeable. The album could open with the fluttering instrumental "No Trail," or the slow burning synths of "As Soon As The Night," even the spectral push-pull of "Marry Us," featuring Emma Ruth Rundle's spellbinding vocals. Regardless of track sequencing, No Trail And Other Unholy Paths is an album that drives its aural dimensions to the absolute threshold_and then some. "Jaye Jayle is a fantastic, sprawling cinematic exploration of dusty isolation and growling arid torch ballads through a Ennio Morricone prism." - LEO Weekly
