TELEKINESIS

To conclude, we ask Telekinesis some questions about endings and death. Telekinesis is the project of Seattle-based singer/songwriter/ drummer Michael Benjamin Lerner, whose new album is titled Effluxion , which comes from the Latin term meaning “to flow.”

While on previous albums Lerner worked with Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla and Spoon’s Jim Eno as producers, Lerner self-produced , recording it in his basement home studio in West Seattle and playing every instrument. It was Walla who helped discover Lerner, shepherding his self-titled debut album in 2009 (released by Merge), producing it and playing on every is the follow-up to 2015’s . The album was influenced by his time in 2017 as a touring member of label-mates Teenage Fanclub, leading him to a more back-to-basics sound as opposed to the drum machine-led . was previewed by the single “Cut the Quick,” which was shared via a video filmed in Manhattan that featured Lerner being haunted by a mysterious spirit living in a photograph.