2023 reissue on colored vinyl - Zach Saginaw consistently grounds his music in a deeply personal, familial context; his grandmother inspired two releases, his producer aliases, Shigeto and Frank Omura, both reference family names and it's not for nothing that his latest release as Shigeto is titled Lineage.
While only Saginaw could speak to the ancestral motivation being referenced on the eight instrumental songs that comprise the mini-LP, Lineage, it's easy to see it as an acknowledgement of debt to musical forebears, reverent respect due to the jazz, hip-hop, funk and folk that animates these eight songs. And while these elements aren't new to Saginaw's work, never has he demonstrated such complete command of his material. Each song is a complex constellation of sounds and ideas, but his compositional focus and restraint grounds songs that are otherwise cosmically inclined.
| A1 | Lineage (Prologue) |
| A2 | Lineage |
| A3 | Ann Arbor Part 3 & 4 |
| A4 | Soaring |
| B1 | A Child's Mind |
| B2 | Huron River Drive |
| B3 | Field Trip |
| B4 | Please Stay |
