Lowe Cellar - TAGU
/25 on yellow cassettes
Lowe Cellar has never been just one thing. It has always been a band where anything can happen because in the creative process all is permissible. But from one release to the next, there’s always an attempt to transmute their core influences into something new.
In their most recent iteration as a three piece, they bring something new once again. Rather than careful orchestration meant to elicit a chamber setting, members Sam Leon, John Jarman, Cody Schuman and Jacob Kelly bring something spontaneous and explosive. Guitars strain and cut under the fierce bass and drum duo, pushing each other to the extreme. Voices clash and tear and then quiet to a whisper.
Drawing from bands like Cursive, mewithoutYou, Lost in the Trees, and Mount Eerie, Lowe Cellar is playing fast and hard to slow and subtle and they are doing it better than ever.
released April 8, 2024
Jacob Kelly -Vocals, guitars, lapsteel; piano on Colander, TAGU and Two Roads; Drums on Two Roads
Sam Leon - Bass, piano on Colander and TAGU, harmonies on Passing Through, mandolin on Passing Through
John Jarman - Drums; field recordings
Elliott Green - Additional Vocals on Ash Wednesday and Postlude to an Elegy.
Dave Boone - Piano on Postlude to an Elegy
Bon Lee - Viola
Elisha - Cello
Sonja Ruegg - Violin
Session engineered by Dave Boone
Other engineering and production by Jacob Kelly
Mixed and co-produced by Cody Schuman
Mastered by Dick Bambino
Album art by Soren Iverson
Track Listing
- Ash Wednesday
- Escaping the Swaddling of Skin
- Eyes Are Mine
- Scorched Earth
- Passing Through
- Colander
- (Into the After)
- TAGU
- Two Roads
- Postlude to an Elegy