Limited to 100 copies

Mixed by Luke Thinnes. Mastered by Andrew Weathers.

Layout and Design by Dustin Bowen.

When interviewed about his early, influential work, John Fahey had the tendency to dismiss it as “cosmic-sentimentalism”. Used as a pejorative to describe a kind of naiveté that Fahey noticed in his big-tent, let’s-throw-it-all-together style of American folk music, Zach Spencer aka JENNIFER took up this phrase as a compliment of the highest order and an idea worth exploring in his omnivorous approach to creating music. JENNIFER sits squarely in a lattice of late-modern new age minimalism, and SINCERELY, created using isolated stems of 80’s pop hits filtered through Spencer’s deep passion for Indian/Southeast-Asian music & contemporary drone heavy-hitters, is an album that’s fiercely more than the sum of its parts – cosmic sentimentalism to the gills.

It’s hard not to imagine this music as some kind of unearthed lost-classic 1980’s White Label, Marin County hot-tub-scene new age album accompanied by 40 pages of liner notes. In reality, JENNIFER is a solo project of Denver D.I.Y denizen and noise-punk lifer Zach Spencer. A fixture in Denver’s legendary D.I.Y community who cut his teeth playing in over a dozen Skingraft / Load Records style noise-punk bands in the CD-R-era American underground, Spencer experienced a crisis of faith in the foundational underpinnings of Western music that led to an 8-year immersive study of North Indian classical music and the centering of drone outside of a Western context.

JENNIFER, originally conceived as an offering to the ever-present-now in the form of analog-only, never-recorded live performances, produced the music that eventually became SINCERELY over a 5-6 month span in 2018 after a series of personal and community tragedies rocked Spencer and the close-knit D.I.Y scene centered around famed warehouse space Rhinoceropolis. Bridging the gap from the “gift theory of art” that informed JENNIFER’s early performances, these recordings slowly began taking shape as a personal gift to Madeline Johnston (Midwife) and others devastated at the loss of both a cherished friend and an artistic community. Years after its completion, this “elegy in the shape of a love letter” has now been offered up to the world at large: a collection of graceful, tearfully-joyous compositions full of bright, arcing drones, seismic tonal shifts, and gorgeous harmonic overtones that recall the stately elegance of Stars of the Lid and amplifier-riding of La Monte Young. At its heart, SINCERELY speaks from a place of love extended outwards.

SINCERELY, JENNIFER.