SOME DARK HOLLER is a new solo record from EMA of the band GOWNS. It is a reconstruction of American folk music, informed by the underground’s vital focus on feedback and drone, but infused with distinct compositional choices and unabashed vocal harmonies. This project seeks to explore/explode genre and technology, and come to terms with the fact that the modern folk song is probably being made on a computer.
pretty, minimalist, quietly explodes
KIND HEART
17-minute feedback-blown version of the Robert Johnson classic
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MOONSHINER
super drone big muff banjos turns into feedback angel vocal loop
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SOME DARK HOLLER has been performing on the West Coast for several years, including shows with Anni Rossi, C. Spencer Yeh, !6 Bitch Pile Up and legendary noisemakers Throbbing Gristle. Read a live show review here.
Erika M. Anderson has sung and strummed in influential West Coast pretty-noise bands GOWNS and Amps for Christ. She is a South Dakota native and a direct descendant of Erik Blood-Axe, the ruthless Viking Warrior. Read an interview with Jessica Hopper here.
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SELECT PRESS FOR GOWNS 2007 ‘RED STATE’:
This unsettling California group specializes in half-hidden songs. On “Red State,” an intense but surprisingly pretty album released earlier this year, you can hear refracted echoes of punk rants and indie-rock ballads, surrounded by crashes and whispers and electronic gurgles.
Kelefa Sanneh for the New York Times
Gown’s debut remains original… It is accomplished in creating disquieting atmosphere through dislocated frequencies, the squalor of fuzzy mics and faltering drones switched with short interludes of haunting acoustics.
- Jennifer Allan for the Wire
this band is a myth in the making.
- kicking_k for Plan
In an era where indie’s fetishes have been for composure, discretion, muscle, and nice shoes, Gowns’ agenda- to make a porno about confusion- is radical.
Mike Powell for Pitchfork Media
Holy fucking fuck. [Gowns are] the best thing I’ve seen this whole festival, and I need to see them again as soon as possible. In the three years I’ve covered CMJ, I’d never experienced a moment remotely like that one.
- Tom Breihan for the Village Voice
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KIND HEART GRAPHIC SCORE
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