Elkhorn - The Red Valley (2024)
BAND/ARTIST: Elkhorn
- Title: The Red Valley
- Year Of Release: 2024
- Label: VHF
- Genre: psych-folk
- Quality: 16-44100 FLAC
- Total Time: 43 min
- Total Size: 239 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
NYC psych-folk duo Elkhorn head skywards on their latest studio full-length, adding folk instruments like the frame drum and the zither to their dueling guitar rituals.
Since their self-titled debut in 2016, Jesse Sheppard and Drew Gardner have been tirelessly tearing apart the folk rulebook, blending dextrous acoustic 12-string patterns with ritualistic psychedelic improvisation. Their emphasis has been on sprawling long-form works and live performance, but on this latest set, they head into the studio to lay down a more layered and intricately composed set - and it's their most absorbing to date. The backbone is still Sheppard and Gardner's interlocking guitar parts, but they augment the sound with more instrumentation, adding vibraphone parts, frame drum knocks and glittering zither parts, plus lever harp and pedal steel from Marissa Nadler and Greg Weeks collaborator Jesse Sparhawk.
And although the songs are shorter than usual, clocking in at 5-10 minutes rather than 20, they don't sound truncated. Elkhorn are more economical with their sounds on this one, focusing on the momentum and the rich, cinematic instrumentation rather than hypnotizing us with duration. Fans of Grails' early material - this one's worth a closer look.
Tracklist:
1.01 - Elkhorn - Crystal Hummingbird (4:55)
1.02 - Elkhorn - Gray Salt Trail (9:47)
1.03 - Elkhorn - Black Wind of Kayenta (6:15)
1.04 - Elkhorn - Road to Chaco Canyon (9:16)
1.05 - Elkhorn - Inside Spider Rock (7:56)
1.06 - Elkhorn - Jackrabbit Hops (5:18)
Since their self-titled debut in 2016, Jesse Sheppard and Drew Gardner have been tirelessly tearing apart the folk rulebook, blending dextrous acoustic 12-string patterns with ritualistic psychedelic improvisation. Their emphasis has been on sprawling long-form works and live performance, but on this latest set, they head into the studio to lay down a more layered and intricately composed set - and it's their most absorbing to date. The backbone is still Sheppard and Gardner's interlocking guitar parts, but they augment the sound with more instrumentation, adding vibraphone parts, frame drum knocks and glittering zither parts, plus lever harp and pedal steel from Marissa Nadler and Greg Weeks collaborator Jesse Sparhawk.
And although the songs are shorter than usual, clocking in at 5-10 minutes rather than 20, they don't sound truncated. Elkhorn are more economical with their sounds on this one, focusing on the momentum and the rich, cinematic instrumentation rather than hypnotizing us with duration. Fans of Grails' early material - this one's worth a closer look.
Tracklist:
1.01 - Elkhorn - Crystal Hummingbird (4:55)
1.02 - Elkhorn - Gray Salt Trail (9:47)
1.03 - Elkhorn - Black Wind of Kayenta (6:15)
1.04 - Elkhorn - Road to Chaco Canyon (9:16)
1.05 - Elkhorn - Inside Spider Rock (7:56)
1.06 - Elkhorn - Jackrabbit Hops (5:18)
Year 2024 | Folk | Rock | FLAC / APE
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