The original title track is a home-recorded lo-fi bedrock of slurring electric guitars, hypnotic drums and howling white noise that Potter created on a 4-track tape machine back in 2002. Michael Potter, of whom you may know as the the distinguished gentleman behind the Garden Portal label, released today some of his own mind-melting soundscapes. If y ou liked the sound of this, you should also check out: The Wrath of the Clouds, by Marissa Nadler and Mirrored Night by ML Wah. Some jazz melodies and the occasional country twang creep into the record, but for the most part, a folk vibe reminiscent of early Josephine Foster and the aforementioned Baier dominates the proceedings.Ĭlick here to order your copy of this beautiful record from No Quarter today. Musically, the record remains very calm and muted, with mainly acoustic and subtle instrumentation cushioning and supporting Horn’s soft, silky vocals. Some of the lyrics invoke short stories by the likes of Joyce Carol Oates and Raymond Carver, the latter of which Horn has referenced as being a direct influence. The tracks feel as though they might share a kinship with not just the work of other great songwriters, like Sibylle Baier and Leonard Cohen, but also pieces by writers of the literary world, too. In the middle of January, No Quarter Records released Jana Horn’s Optimism on vinyl and CD, and it’s already proving to be one of the most sublime singer-songwriter records of 2022.īased in Austin, TX, Horn tells deeply human stories, some complete and others fragmented, with her melancholic folk-leaning songs. If y ou liked the sound of this, you should also check out: Charlottesville 01/23/22, also by Ryley Walker and Works For Upright Bass and Amplifier Vol.
We need more records that stray as far away from overused formulas as this one.Ĭlick here to get So Certain on CD and digital today. You never know exactly what might happen from one moment to the next on this release, and that’s what makes it so great. This Frankenstein of styles is intensely complicated musically, yet somehow catchy at the same time.Įxpect sudden time signature shifts, obscure lyrics and Walker’s vocals sliding from near whispers to impressive barks. Ryley Walker is continuing to bust out of genre norms and outdo his previous feats on the excellent So Certain EP.įlanked by Bill MacKay on guitar, Andrew Scott Young on bass and cello and Quin Kirchner drums, Walker takes the slamming and discordant jazz leanings of his recent Post Wook release and welds them together with his unique brand of angular folk rock. The Prefab Messiahs – Gellow Mold: Al Lover at the Controls If y ou liked the sound of this, you should also check out: The self-titled album by Shalabi Effect (also from Radio Khiyaban) and Agadez by Etran de L’Aïr.
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This is a deep and enchanting listen that all should experience at least once. What they created here is something perhaps unexpected, but entirely unique, powerful and straight up addictive for the ears. The tape’s clashing of styles truly hammers home the band’s desire to create art that reflects their Palestinian roots and their absorption into America’s southern culture. They threw together an expansive mix of disparate sounds and influences, like spoken word poetry, oud freak-outs and psychedelicized post-punk jams, and somehow, it just works. The great Radio Khiyaban label is giving Dunums’ wonderfully peerless Where’s My Eidi? album its first ever physical release today, and you better grab it fast before it’s gone.ĭunums, a North Carolina-based experimental music and multi-media collective led by Sijal Nasralla, went all in on this record.
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