SUSS: “Flight”
Cosmic Americana? I’ve heard the designation applied before with reference to Other Brother Darryl, though the two bands are quite different. OBD has some spacey, psych-informed sounds, but they’re still writing songs that are at bottom conventional pop ditties with lyrics surfing atop verses and refrains. Kind of Crosby, Stills & Nash. SUSS, if their full-length Birds & Beasts is any indication, have moved beyond traditional pop structures for fully-instrumental soundscapes. Experimental, in some sense. I guess anytime a music outfit packages instrumentals for popular music consumption, there’s an experiment underway. An experiment that’s still grounded in the strings and keys of the folk tradition. Shades of Aaron Copland. Via Northern Spy Records.
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A soulful call and response between the flute and the kora.
A live solo ditty from an artist you know from Lewis Del Mar.
Andrew Stern; interview with DIY venue 4th Wall organizers; and more.
Tycho hopes the future and requiems the past at Royale.