We're more than halfway through the year, so I thought it was about time that I discuss some of the 2016 releases I've purchased. Here are some thoughts on the following: Anenon Petrol Friends of Friends Released: 3.4.16 Purely on the strength of the single "Once," I went to Anenon 's Bandcamp page and purchased a copy of the band's latest album, Petrol . Anenon is the moniker of one Brian Allen Simon , saxophonist and creative presence behind Petrol , whose composed intersections of soft and rushed are manifest in such a way as to find solace in spite of constant stimuli. Petrol is apparently an ode to the Los Angeles highway, though there's a lot of serenity within these grooves, too much to attribute to the frustration, anxiety, and stress one experiences when stuck in traffic. The aforementioned “Once” struck me because of Anenon’s dichotomous approach to tension, its hurried drum patterns, built by collaborator Jon-Kyle Mohr , being met...