“Dehiscence is a break-up album that casts a kind but critical eye on the idea of breaking up itself,” writes Frances Morgan in The Wire 437, reflecting on the latest album by songwriter Wendy Eisenberg: “the solipsism and tragicomedy of heartbreak, its weird highs and lows, how it positions you in relation to society and yourself.”

Although Eisenberg trained as a jazz guitarist and studied improvisation, they eventually returned to songwriting. In their Wire interview, they explain the inspiration they took from Brazilian guitarists and composers João Gilberto and Egberto Gismonti: “[they] legitimised songwriting in some sort of tangential relation to the jazz idiom for me,” Eisenberg explains. “Probably João Gilberto is the biggest deal for me, harmonically and everything.”

Here, Eisenberg has compiled a playlist of songs from their latest release and those leading up to it, and shares the recording “Gossip Song” for the first time.

“I Was Fine” From Collected Early Works

“Strike Through” From Collected Early Works

“Postal Man” From Time Machine

“Brain Today” From Time Machine

“Sawn” From Its Shape Is Your Touch

“Early November” From Its Shape Is Your Touch

“Frayed, Knotted And Unshorn” From Machinic Unconscious

“Mycoaelia” From Machinic Unconscious

“Zoning” From Machinic Unconscious

“Yellow Hand” From Dehiscence

“As The Bird Flies In Vermont, For Carrie” From Dehiscence

“Now Proceed” From Dehiscence

“Half The Time” From Dehiscence

“Gossip Song” (bonus track)

Read Frances Morgan's full interview with Wendy Eisenberg in The Wire 437. Subscribers can access the article via the digital archive.