without saying a word
Starred is the NYC via LA/SF duo fronted by the fashionable vocalist and guitarist Liza Thorn (formerly of Bridez) creating heavy yet somber music that is quiet as it is loud with the venom of rock-n-roll
She characterises this notion in the album’s brutalist bookends
The private-press edition of their self-titled album (also known as Static Disposal
With its raucous honky-tonk piano laid down by Hans Chew and walls of layered saxophone
MANDY, INDIANA - Urgh LP Berlin without saying a wordFor Mandy, Indiana, the truth is the only way through. On their Sacred Bones debut URGH, the four piece vocalist Valentine Caulfield, guitarist and producer Scott Fair, synth player Simon Catling, and drummer Alex Macdougall are a force of uncanny nature, grafting together a record that is as much a call to action as a parlay into oblivion and transcendence. Across the ten tracks, the band interpolate their own unconventional language into a mantra