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jefrecantuledesma.ffm.to/september.OYDAboutSix months after releasing his acclaimed 2025 album Gift Songs, a stunning suite of minimal compositions named Best New Music by Pitchfork, ambient experimentalist Jefre Cantu-Ledesma returns with “September.” The hour-long piece gently ebbs with a piano motif layered over a soft drone and natural ambience.CreditsWritten and produced by Jefre Cantu-LedesmaComposed and recorded at Casa De Chapa, Summer 2025Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering (Bonn, DE)Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - guitar, effectsOmer Shemesh - piano, glass armonicaJoseph Weiss - bass guitarClarice Jensen - celloBooker Stardrum - percussionPublished by Shining Skull (ASCAP)FollowYoutube:
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deflatedboy Aug 23 2025
the most terrifying thing i've ever heard
Every single thing about this album makes me want to curl up in a ball and cry. I don't think there has ever been a more potent expression of transgender rage ever in the history of music. It's genuinely horrifying. I don't want to talk about it anymore than that.
Trans rights are human rights.
engired Sep 08 2022
Reviewing Queer Artists #1
The first time I listened to this album was about a year and a half ago. In the midst of learning how to exist when I found myself losing touch with reality I went on Youtube Music, and listened to this whole album. I didn't understand it. At least like I do now. I hardly knew anything about trans people. Enbys? It would take me a while before I could truly understand them. I was already in a trans dominated community, even more now for what I call home.
The album starts with
Detransitioning. To spend the time to actually medically transition, all for it to come away. Then the repetitious denial or acknowledgement of gender dysphoria not being the origin of her depression in the title track... The further you go transitioning the more it hurts to see your old traits of femininity or masculinity appear once again. The never ending depression of knowing that we don't live in a world where queer people can live - and I mean that literally.
Lay Down and Rot is easily the harshest song yet. Residing back, like the album cover, only to just rot in place. A strong reference to depression, not being able to do anything but hope for a future that you partly have to create yourself in a world that doesn't want you to.
Epilation Joy is a lot more calm. It focuses on that happiness of finally removing one thing that most transfems focus on second, after actual hair of course. The sentiment is there. It's so there.
Please Don't Leave Me pushes the album back into borderline metal territory, and it feels like 5 minutes over it's 2 minute runtime - I mean that in a good way of course. It's the darkest track yet, for the want of company - compassion even.
An Angel of Great and Terrible Light is a revival of sorts, having a sense of drive, finally, and a giant collage of instruments. It's epic, and gratifying after the last 5 tracks.
Misspent Youth details the pain of knowing that your childhood, may not have ever existed. I mean, is it you? Is it you if you can't even be yourself?
"I was dead for 26 years / I feel so, so stupid for waiting"
Education doesn't cover queer issues. It just doesn't. Did I learn about enbies through school? Maybe their existence? I don't think I ever did. It was gender binary, even for trans people. The song covers her broken relationships, bullying from peers, and suicide. The album is perhaps cyclical - with how this song plunges the listener back through her depression, and the suicide suggested by the album cover.
"Hell is fine if I am woman there too. And hell is my truth."
5/5