REVIEW | 'Brutalist' by Andrew Cloninger - CITY Magazine. Arts. Music. Culture.

REVIEW | 'Brutalist' by Andrew Cloninger - CITY Magazine. Arts. Music. Culture.

There is a lot to process on Andrew Cloninger’s new album, “Brutalist.” Processing, in fact, could serve as the guiding concept behind the album. Song titles like “Archive” and “Field Notes” suggest raw sonic material of various sorts underwent a careful process of refinement, sifting or even distilling. Instead of clean, repeatable melodies and chord progressions propelling songs forward, the Canandaigua artist lets simple melodic fragments, ri…