Those tuned into NYC’s downtown thrash scene may know Jonny Ollsin from his time on guitar and vocals with breakneck metallers Children, but it’s this familial project with vocalist/wife Kim Krans that’s become the couple’s primary focus on the heels of completing a chilly and beautiful debut album.
not the album artwork, release party 2010-08-17, new york
Over the past several years, Shannon Whitworth’s impact in the world of Americana music has created lofty expectations by fans nationwide. As a founding member of the acclaimed acoustic quartet The Biscuit Burners, Shannon received national praise for her definitive songwriting and captivating voice.
Misery may love company but the reverse is true as well. And few improv-y crews are as adept at coaxing delicious smoky noir heartbreak as City Terrace quartet Low Light Situations. It only takes a couple turtlenecks, two beards, three folding chairs, one clarinet, and a single
sizzle-chain for these itinerant east LA session players to slow-roast a setÆs worth of mesmerizing instrumental reverb chamber mystery-jazz.
The guy himself not the artwork.
One of the greatest, most genuine people I have ever had the pleasure to meet is Mike from Attic Abasement . In this beautiful track, “Australia” from his 2010 release Dancing is Depressing, ancient piano keys battle rusted guitar strings on the deserted plains of Mike’s sullen voice.
Seriously one of my favorite songs of the year. So I am happy to announce that this album will be our second digital release. Look for it in the upcoming days on the site, and very possibly on cassette in the near future.
I just finished the physical pressing of my album, The Hard Times LP. The idea was to make something tangible. You know, with that vinyl-esq’, aesthetic feel to it; something that people could [hopefully] really appreciate. Every single one is completely original and it is an amazing feeling to have finally finished this project. You can view the whole photo set by clicking
Recorded entirely to tape at an all-analogue studio in Manchester, UK and released on vinyl. We have a band fund and day jobs to fund our music but every bit helps. We are traveling halfway across the world for this studio because it is COMPLETELY ANALOGUE and that’s what we believe in. There isn’t a computer in the studio! It’s an amazing studio with a vintage TRIDENT Console, the same used on Lou Reed’s Transformer and David Bowie’s Hunky Dory.”
It’s not important to try to compare something that can’t possibly be measured. ..
Pearls Before Swine 