Claude says:Andy Othling builds his instrumental pieces alone in Albuquerque, layering electric guitar through effects pedals and programming into something between post-rock crescendo and modern classical restraint. This 2014 record came to you right when it dropped — the Russian famine cycle ("Silence of Siberia," "Death in a Garden," "A Chance Grain of Rye") and its requiem movements hit hard that May, then you circled back once two years later before moving on.