Gabriel Zucker’s sixth studio record, Confession, is an album of urgently emotional music for disconnected times. Alternately ethereal and bombastic, electronic and acoustic, vocal and instrumental, Confession is a deeply human reflection on what it means to know another person.

As with much of Zucker’s previous work, Confession’s 59 minutes represent not just a collection of tracks but one unified composition, arranged in four continuous acts, written mainly at the height of the pandemic in the deserts of New Mexico. Bringing the record to life is a murderer’s row of the finest and most creative musicians in New York’s experimental, jazz, and indie scenes — and a unique production style as thoughtful and protean as the composition.