Glow in the Dark Flowers, Midwife, Desert Liminal

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Glow in the Dark Flowers - Record Release
Glow in the Dark Flowers finds Jessee Rose Crane and Philip Jerome Lesicko expanding their sound with maturity, grace, and poeticism but without abandoning the fuzzed out adventurousness of their earlier work. The album's intimate opener, "Growing Cosmos," is propelled by an unquantized drum machine that stutters in and out of tempo, accompanied by enveloping hard-panned bass guitar. "Still Close To Me" recalls the duo's effortless and hypnotic pop sensibility that made The Funs such a captivating live band in Chicago's then thriving DIY scene. The albums closer "When The Leaves Have Fallen," originally composed for a performance by the artist Lise Haller Baggesen continually builds on its original theme until the drums drift out and gives way to cascading distorted guitars folding in on each other. The band's new album represents a next level of their devoted partnership that continually produces raw and beautiful music. Glow in the Dark Flowers is a true reflection of their passion and dedication to their drive for creation.

Madeline Johnston (Midwife) is a self taught multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer, currently based in Southern New Mexico by way of Denver, Colorado, where she spent the last decade + developing her sound and focusing on her artistic community. Midwife began while Madeline was a resident of the beloved DIY space Rhinoceropolis in 2014. She has released three albums with The Flenser, most recently, Luminol (2021), which received National and International acclaim. On stage, Johnston is known for her sparse, emotionally charged experimental pop music that can silence a room. On record, she produces intricate and lush sonic environments in her own little corner of the heavy music scene. She describes her sound as "Heaven Metal," AKA emotional music about devastation: catharsis. Johnston writes primarily about grief, and the many faces it can inhabit. 

Desert Liminal is an experimental pop trio and fixture in the deep field of Chicago independent music. Their unique sound combines elements of melodic dream pop, shoegaze, and noise. Low-end vintage synthesizer is filtered through a distortion array and layered, forming warm, looping walls of sound that wash over driving post-punk drums and poignant violin. A first listen of Glass Fate, the group's first release on Whited Sepulchre Records, reveals a band with an astute ear for creating warm, engaging art-pop that entwines Quillin’s eliding delivery around smart hooks and introspective, bordering on melancholy, melodies. The further these songs move from the source they begin slipping into headier terrain creating neck-craning audio fields of droning violins and looped voice that recall Tony Conrad at his most accessible and Haley Fohr’s experimentations with voice and breath. These sounds cohabitate in the liminal space where meaning and reference slowly fade into Jungian archetype and back again through the trio’s strong grasp on solid, reality-affirming songwriting.