Wilderman proves that there’s more than a Prada art installation out in the West Texas town of Marfa. Rob Gungor (aka Wilderman) explores life in the real world while trying to navigate the online digital world like the rest of us. “Artifice” is the name of his upcoming project scheduled for release on April 20 (insert stoner joke here).

Gungor reocrded the new album in my hometown area of Sonic Ranch out in the outskirts of El Paso in Tornillo. The sometime Marfa resident recruited from the community for help on the album and ended up with: (Andy Stack of Wye Oak) old friend John Arndt (The Brilliance), Gungor’s Grammy-nominated brother Michael, McKenzie Smith (Midlake), Jeremy Harris, and Andrew McGuire. Hugo Nicholson (Radiohead, Father John Misty, Primal Scream) sat in as engineer.

On “Cog,” Gungor filters the best of what ’70s art rock had to offer ala Roxy Music in a minimalistic way that would’ve made Brian Eno gush.

Artifice – TRACKLISTING

01. Cog
02. Nurture Nature
03. Sea Moan
04. Feel It
05. Stop The Noise
06. Loss of Now
07. Evidence
08. Now Reality
09. Sail Away
10. Open Space
11. Human Race