Tawny Newsome & Bethany Thomas - Material Flats (2020)

MATERIAL FLATS is a now-or-never plunge into the unknown with two performers who’ve been everywhere else.

Born out of the pandemic, protests, and a fierce desire to learn to do things for themselves, Material Flats is a chance to lead, together. Blending garage-punk, soulfully sung folk, and influences as diverse as Talking Heads, The Pixies, Bonnie Raitt and Billy Preston, they finally made something entirely their own. They even recorded and engineered it themselves in Tawny’s home studio in the Mojave desert (with pals/musicians Patrick Martin and Nate Urbansky), and co-produced it with Chicago mixmaster Packy Lundholm.