Some Need It Lonely is the 38th studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López and his twelfth and last release in the 12 album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings, although before its release the label confirmed an additional 12 records forthcoming set to continue the biweekly release schedule.
The album opens with “Bitter Sunsets,” which features a sort of heavy, hip-hop-ish beat, and shares its title with the second track on Nom de Guerre Cabal, but the vocals are so indecipherably distorted that it’s impossible to know whether it’s a remix or even related at all.
Tracks two through four are somewhat forgettable experiments in texture, while tracks five through nine are loop-based jams, (barely) redeemed by Teri Gender Bender’s singing but cluttered by…
…atonal and dissonant arrangements.
“Ariel,” the tenth track, finally offers some reprieve in minor-key, acoustic noodling with some psychedelic percussion textures (chimes and shakers), and eventually builds to a sort of Santana-ish hand-drum beat for the fourth and final minute. The last song continues the vibe with Teri Gender Bender singing again, this time over some murky avant-dub grooves.