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Norway + Kentucky-based band knows what it’s doing: Leader
Hilarie Sidney co-founded one of music history’s most perfect pop collectives. +++
The High Water Marks (L-R): Logan
Miller, Hilarie Sidney, Per Ole Bratset, Øystein Megård. Photo credit: Self-Portraits, Illustration by Per Ole
Bratset. +++
The High Water Marks | “Proclaimer
of Things”
[STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/TheHighWaterMarks-Proclaimer-Single The press calls The
High Water Marks “pulse-raising mega-pop,” (UNCUT), with “sugar-coated melodies to spare” (Pitchfork), that offers “garage pop for the masses” (Paste), and now Under
The Radar rings in with the premiere
of the title track of the band’s upcoming new album, calling “Proclaimer of Things,” “an
irresistible power pop gem.” The upcoming Proclaimer of Things album is the
second full-length in just over a year from The High Water Marks, following a (too long!) 13-year hiatus. The Grøa, Norway and Lexington, Kentucky-based band
fronted by Hilarie Sidney, the
co-founder of the Elephant 6 Recording
Co. and one of its core bands The
Apples In Stereo, maintains and extends the high-energy fantastic fuzz of
those sounds. The “Proclaimer of Things”
single, featuring lead vocal by Sidney’s
bandmate and husband, Per Ole Bratset
(along with a boyhood photo of Sidney’s
great grandfather on the cover!) is out today.
The full 13-song album arrives Feb. 4th,
2022 via Minty Fresh. Bratset says, “The title comes from an inside joke Hil and I always play around with. If
we catch ourselves being a little preachy or pompous, we add ‘I am the
proclaimer of things!’ at the end. We picture this guy with a crazy mustache
and top hat going around ‘proclaiming things,’ while holding up a scroll and
wearing a monocle. It always makes it weird and hilarious!” Sidney elaborates on the appearance of her great grandfather
on the cover of the single, saying, “His dad owned a roller rink in the 1880s
in Iowa. My great-grandpa was so good at skating and doing tricks on both the
bike and the skates that he started performing around the Midwest, and as far
west as Colorado. He earned an insanely good chunk of cash for doing this, thus
supporting the family. He went under the moniker, Little Willy Sidney, and Wee
Willy Sidney, hahaha.” +++
Hilarie Sidney from The High Water Markschats
about the band’s upcoming album as well as her Elephant 6 and Apples In
Stereo history in Denver with the city’s own Westword. Check
it out and feel a mile high! +++ The High Water Marks | “Jenny”
“I am so lucky to have been a musician throughout my
life,” says Hilarie Sidney,
currently fronting The High Water Marks,
and best known as co-founder of the revered musical collective Elephant Six, and one of its three core
bands The Apples In Stereo. Based in her adopted home town of Grøa, Norway, Sidney and The High Water Marks are prepping to release Proclaimer of Things, the
band’s second album in just over a year, following-up the 2020 album Ecstasy
Rhymes, its first album in 13 years. Coming back after such a long stretch of being off the
scene with a critically and commercially welcomed new album, and then quickly
coming in hot with another batch of 13 songs, isn’t an accident. In this case,
it’s a coping mechanism. With the United States reaching a milestone of 1 in
500 people having succumbed to COVID-19, it’s tragic news that this statistic
hits home for Sidney. Her mother,
half a world away, passed from the virus earlier this year. “Not being able to see her and knowing that she was
alone, dying in a nursing home, still haunts me daily,” Sidney courageously reveals. Sidney knew that when she began to build a life in Norway
with her band mate and husband Per Ole
Bratset and their son, that she would be just a 12-hour flight from the
rest of her family, but that 12 hours became something completely different
under lockdown. “I never factored in a pandemic,” she says. “At least
my mom got to hear our record before she passed away. That means a lot to me
because she was always really supportive of my music.” The thirteen songs that comprise Proclaimer of Things are
just a drop in the bucket, considering how much Sidney has leaned on songwriting to take her mind off things. “I feel like I can’t pick up the guitar without
writing a little melody. As therapy, we decided to keep recording. We dove into
the project to keep us sane, focused, and from going down the rabbit hole of
depression and self-pity.” Through it all, The
High Water Marks made an album that is positive, light, happy, and
meaningful. “I think my mom would approve of my method of dealing
with the grief of losing her.” Sidney
says with trademark optimism. Proclaimer of Things, the latest album by The High Water Marks, is scheduled for release on Feb. 4th, 2022 on Minty Fresh. +++ The High Water Marks | Links ASSETS : FACEBOOK : INSTAGRAM : SPOTIFY : APPLE : MINTY FRESH +++ Josh Bloom at Fanatic
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“A prayer and call for hope for young
female energy,” song is from upcoming follow-up to Parrott’s “Top 10 of The
Year” (Austin Chronicle) debut. +++
Jenny
Parrott as photographed
by Carrie Jane Fink. Design by Catfish. +++ PLAY, POST & SHARE Jenny Parrott | “Georgica”
[STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/JennyParrott-Georgica +++ “American icon Kinky
Friedman has been quoted as saying Jenny
Parrott’s tunes are ‘the best songs I’ve heard since Christ was a cowboy!’ That
statement isn’t going to wear out too soon. There is nothing to not like about Jenny Parrott, be sure to get more of
her in your life. ‘Georgica’ is also
our Song of the Day.” Check
outFolk Radio UK’s premiere
coverage of “Georgica” by Jenny Parrotthere
or listen at the links above. “‘Georgica’ is the name of my hometown
friend's little girl,” Parrott says.
“Her mother – the Grandma – asked me to write a song as a gift to her. We aren’t
especially in touch anymore – I live very far away – but the song has a vibe of
sending warm, maternal, motherly well-wishes through time and space from an
older source to a younger one, with the understanding that there's birth and
death, and hopefully a whole lot of nice stuff in-between. It’s almost like a prayer and call for hope for young
female energy. When I think about this song, I almost feel like I'm up in
space, singing to the planet.” +++ Jenny Parrott The
Fire I Saw (Parking Lot Panic Attack) Nov 12th, 2021
Track Listing: 01. Knockin’ Back Some Cokes (STREAM) 02. My Hero 03. I Thought (STREAM) 04. Say It 05. Georgica (STREAM) 06. Hallelujah 07. July 08. The Fire I Saw (Is There Anyone To Meet Me?) +++ Jenny Parrott | About
Jenny
Parrott’s 2017 solo debut When
I Come Down was named one of the Austin
Chronicle’s Top
10 albums of that year. Her follow-up full-length The Fire I Saw arrives on
Nov. 12th, 2021. The new album is, naturally, an evolution of Parrott’s seemingly effortless
lyricism, humor mixed with despair, and ultimately, her economic use of
unforgettable melodies and just-right instrumentation that makes you feel like
she’s seeing you even more than she’s seeing herself. “These arms can’t stand an ever loving man. And these
eyes can’t see a never changing me.” The opening lines of first single “I Thought” stop you dead in your tracks. A perfect example of what
Parrott does over the course of an
album that doesn’t even clock in past 25 minutes and doesn’t need to. Parrott takes care of all business
during the brief span of the eight songs on The Fire I Saw, in a way
many songwriters work an entire career towards and never reach. The album was originally going to be a more
standard-length release, but the pandemic changed up Parrott’s plans. “I had to give the album a makeover because I was
planning on having all my buds come over and finish it in the home studio. Most
of my friends in Austin are rootsy-type players, so it would have had that
feel. But I was stuck at home in a damp cul-de-sac, and I was scared of the
virus, and didn’t want anyone in my space,” she explains. Teaching herself Logic, and putting her Roland Juno
into overdrive, Parrott spent time
testing and tweaking her favorite synth patches until she had whittled the
album down to the “eight that I felt were okay.” Some may say, the eight are more than “okay.” American icon, Kinky
Friedman has been quoted as saying Parrott’s
tunes are “the best songs I’ve heard since Christ was a cowboy!,” which, it can
be argued, is a more interesting string of words than anything Kinky could have actually been talking
about, but we get the idea! Parrott has played prisons, a Black Panther reunion party,
children’s shows, on streets all over the world, and in every basement from
here to New York. She has opened for Jonathan
Richman, Pokey LaFarge, and Delbert McClinton. These aren’t mere
credits, they are experiences that you should rightfully expect inform Parrott’s songs. And not all of the experiences need to be so flashy.
Mundane works just fine, too. Parrott describes the album track “July” as being “written while taking out the garbage in Macon,
Georgia” and opener “Knockin’ Back Some
Cokes” as “a play on how Sam Cooke
is always singing about Coke and popcorn and cake and ice cream,” although she
goes on to rightly remark that her take contains “sinister lyrics about facing
down climate change and the apocalypse.” Similarly stark is the previously mentioned, “I Thought,” which, while taking Parrott’s stock of her ability to love
and be loved, was “written as a response to an abusive relationship at a time
in my life where I swore I’d cut out people with violence in their repertoire.” “A lot of the songs are about life, death, and faith,”
she says. “Like, having enough faith to wonder about your child’s future in ‘Georgica,’” she explains, referring to
another of the album’s upcoming singles, which was written for a hometown
friend that Parrott used to sing
with. “I am trying to be myself with the songs and
performances, instead of putting out a record with the right number of
happy-sounding songs on it,” she says. “You don’t have to use a dude’s guitar
part to spare his feelings! That will only dim the fire within you that you
saw, and you’ve got to feed it.” The Fire I Saw, the second solo album by Jenny
Parrott, arrives on Nov. 12th,
2021, preceded by the singles “I
Thought” and “Georgica”. Jenny Parrott is
available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information. +++ Jenny
Parrott | Links ASSETS : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : INSTAGRAM : YOUTUBE : BANDCAMP : SPOTIFY : APPLE +++ Josh Bloom at Fanatic
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Track leads off bi-coastal trio’s self-titled EP – mixed
by Joe McGrath (Morrissey, Green Day, Velocity Girl) – out Nov. 5th
via Dead Stare. +++
The Nervous Hex (L-R): Ryan
Traster, Corey Zaloom, Dylan Schultz. Photo credit: The Nervous Hex +++ The Nervous Hex | “Wash”
[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1OEd_8FENQ [STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/TheNervousHex-Wash +++ “Revolution lies behind your eyes. /
Stop looking towards the sky.” “Sonically,I
was in a deep Shoegaze rabbit hole for this one,” says Ryan Traster of The Nervous
Hex about “Wash.” “It was during
a particularly rainy winter in Portland, and I was messing around with a lot of
textures and weirdo tunings and stuff. “Lyrically, I wanted to explore the idea of looking
inward to spark revolution, whether that be a personal revolution, cultural
revolution, or both. Side-stepping the notion that there is going to be a
savior that swoops in and really changes things.”
+++
The Nervous Hex S/T EP Nov. 5th, 2021 (Dead Stare)
Track Listing: 01.Wash (VIDEO | STREAM) 02.Ghosting 03.The Avenues 04.Positive Feedback Loop +++ The Nervous
Hex | About
“Thurston Moore
of Sonic Youth said that Today
by Galaxie 500 was ‘the guitar album
of 1988,’” explains Ryan Traster of The Nervous Hex. “It made me want to
take a stab at making the second best guitar album of 1988.” The Nervous
Hex will release the first rumblings
of this worthwhile endeavor on Nov. 5th
with its self-titled four-song debut EP via Dead Stare. Hear
the lead track “Wash” now. Based on both coasts – Traster (Guitar/Vocals) is in Southern California, Corey Zaloom (Bass, Vocals) and Dylan Schultz (Guitar, Vocals) are in
Brooklyn – The Nervous Hex brings
together three successful longtime DIY-ers. Traster has numerous solo albums album to his credit, in
addition to his stint with Midwestern Emo heroes Small Towns Burn A Little Slower (Triple Crown / Rise Records),
and Zaloom and Schultz have variously performed with artists such as A Bunch of Dead People, Swampboots, Riverwild, Galaxy Queens,
and Tourmaline. The members of The
Nervous Hex are also old friends and former bandmates, reconvening in a new
formation to find a new sound. Along with the pursuit of 1988’s guitar album
silver medal per the Thurston / Galaxie quote above, the songs on “The Nervous Hex EP” also give off
potent late 80s / early 90s, Hoboken / Yo
La Tengo / Feelies vibes. Or, as the band’s mix engineer Joe McGrath (Morrissey, Green Day, Velocity Girl) viscerally describes, “It feels like I missed the
last PATH train, so I had to sleep in the Hoboken terminal.” Despite the distance, “The Nervous Hex EP” is meant to “announce this band into
existence,” according to Traster, as
the trio is already working on new music and plans for touring in 2022. The self-titled debut EP by The Nervous Hex is scheduled for release on Nov. 5th, 2021 on Dead
Stare. +++ The Nervous Hex | Links INSTAGRAM : BANDCAMP : DEAD STARE +++ Josh Bloom at Fanatic
Promotion | Contact WEBSITE
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“These arms can’t stand an ever lovin’ man / These
eyes can’t see a never changin’ me”
The lyrics are taken from “‘I Thought,’ the first single from Jenny Parrott’s upcoming album The Fire I Saw. Check out the
premiere coverage at Americana
Highways and Americana
UK.
“It was written as a response to an abusive
relationship at a time in my life where I swore I’d cut out people with
violence in their repertoire,” Parrott
says. “It’s about when your first instincts to love, to cherish, and to give
your all, later turn out to be incorrect.”
She continues, “The fearful realization that maybe you
just ‘loved’ that way with such intensity because you’re repeating some old,
broken pattern of childhood violence.
“I grew up with a violent childhood and am a trauma
survivor. While I have healed a lot, and have a big capacity for love, I still
sometimes make the wrong choices and love people who are abusive. I suspect
that as I age, my radar will get sharper and sharper, but I still make
mistakes.”
Jenny
Parrott’s 2017 solo debut When
I Come Down was named one of the Austin
Chronicle’s Top
10 albums of that year. Her follow-up full-length The Fire I Saw arrives on
Nov. 12th, 2021.
The new album is, naturally, an evolution of Parrott’s seemingly effortless
lyricism, humor mixed with despair, and ultimately, her economic use of
unforgettable melodies and just-right instrumentation that makes you feel like
she’s seeing you even more than she’s seeing herself.
“These arms can’t stand an ever loving man. And these
eyes can’t see a never changing me.”
The opening lines of first single “I Thought” stop you dead in your tracks. A perfect example of what
Parrott does over the course of an
album that doesn’t even clock in past 25 minutes and doesn’t need to. Parrott takes care of all business
during the brief span of the eight songs on The Fire I Saw, in a way
many songwriters work an entire career towards and never reach.
The album was originally going to be a more standard-length
release, but the pandemic changed up Parrott’s
plans.
“I had to give the album a makeover because I was
planning on having all my buds come over and finish it in the home studio. Most
of my friends in Austin are rootsy-type players, so it would have had that
feel. But I was stuck at home in a damp cul-de-sac, and I was scared of the
virus, and didn’t want anyone in my space,” she explains.
Teaching herself Logic, and putting her Roland Juno
into overdrive, Parrott spent time
testing and tweaking her favorite synth patches until she had whittled the
album down to the “eight that I felt were okay.”
Some may say, the eight are more than “okay.”
American icon, Kinky
Friedman has been quoted as saying Parrott’s
tunes are “the best songs I’ve heard since Christ was a cowboy!,” which, it can
be argued, is a more interesting string of words than anything Kinky could have actually been talking
about, but we get the idea!
Parrott has played prisons, a Black Panther reunion party,
children’s shows, on streets all over the world, and in every basement from
here to New York. She has opened for Jonathan
Richman, Pokey LaFarge, and Delbert McClinton. These aren’t mere
credits, they are experiences that you should rightfully expect inform Parrott’s songs.
And not all of the experiences need to be so flashy.
Mundane works just fine, too.
Parrott describes the album track “July” as being “written while taking out the garbage in Macon,
Georgia” and opener “Knockin’ Back Some
Cokes” as “a play on how Sam Cooke
is always singing about Coke and popcorn and cake and ice cream,” although she
goes on to rightly remark that her take contains “sinister lyrics about facing
down climate change and the apocalypse.”
Similarly stark is the previously mentioned, “I Thought,” which, while taking Parrott’s stock of her ability to love
and be loved, was “written as a response to an abusive relationship at a time
in my life where I swore I’d cut out people with violence in their repertoire.”
“A lot of the songs are about life, death, and faith,”
she says. “Like, having enough faith to wonder about your child’s future in ‘Georgica,’” she explains, referring to
another of the album’s upcoming singles, which was written for a hometown
friend that Parrott used to sing
with.
“I am trying to be myself with the songs and
performances, instead of putting out a record with the right number of
happy-sounding songs on it,” she says. “You don’t have to use a dude’s guitar
part to spare his feelings! That will only dim the fire within you that you
saw, and you’ve got to feed it.”
The Fire I Saw, the second solo album by Jenny
Parrott, arrives on Nov. 12th,
2021, preceded by the singles “I
Thought” (Out Now) and “Georgica”
(Oct. 21).
Jenny Parrott is
available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
The Nervous Hex (L-R): Ryan
Traster, Corey Zaloom, Dylan Schultz. Photo credit: The Nervous Hex +++ The Nervous Hex | “Wash”
[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1OEd_8FENQ [STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/TheNervousHex-Wash +++ “Revolution lies behind your eyes. / Stop
looking towards the sky.” “Sonically,I
was in a deep Shoegaze rabbit hole for this one,” says Ryan Traster of The Nervous
Hex about “Wash.” “It was during
a particularly rainy winter in Portland, and I was messing around with a lot of
textures and weirdo tunings and stuff. “Lyrically, I wanted to explore the idea of looking
inward to spark revolution, whether that be a personal revolution, cultural
revolution, or both. Side-stepping the notion that there is going to be a
savior that swoops in and really changes things.” +++
The Nervous Hex S/T EP Nov. 5th, 2021 (Dead Stare)
Track Listing: 01.Wash (VIDEO | STREAM) 02.Ghosting 03.The Avenues 04.Positive Feedback Loop +++ The Nervous
Hex | About
“Thurston Moore
of Sonic Youth said that Today
by Galaxie 500 was ‘the guitar album
of 1988,’” explains Ryan Traster of The Nervous Hex. “It made me want to
take a stab at making the second best guitar album of 1988.” The Nervous
Hex will release the first rumblings
of this worthwhile endeavor on Nov. 5th
with its self-titled four-song debut EP via Dead Stare. Hear
the lead track “Wash” now. Based on both coasts – Traster (Guitar/Vocals) is in Southern California, Corey Zaloom (Bass, Vocals) and Dylan Schultz (Guitar, Vocals) are in
Brooklyn – The Nervous Hex brings
together three successful longtime DIY-ers. Traster has numerous solo albums album to his credit, in
addition to his stint with Midwestern Emo heroes Small Towns Burn A Little Slower (Triple Crown / Rise Records),
and Zaloom and Schultz have variously performed with artists such as A Bunch of Dead People, Swampboots, Riverwild, Galaxy Queens,
and Tourmaline. The members of The
Nervous Hex are also old friends and former bandmates, reconvening in a new
formation to find a new sound. Along with the pursuit of 1988’s guitar album
silver medal per the Thurston / Galaxie quote above, the songs on “The Nervous Hex EP” also give off
potent late 80s / early 90s, Hoboken / Yo
La Tengo / Feelies vibes. Or, as the band’s mix engineer Joe McGrath (Morrissey, Green Day, Velocity Girl) viscerally describes, “It feels like I missed the
last PATH train, so I had to sleep in the Hoboken terminal.” Despite the distance, “The Nervous Hex EP” is meant to “announce this band into
existence,” according to Traster, as
the trio is already working on new music and plans for touring in 2022. The debut self-titled EP by The Nervous Hex is scheduled for
release on Nov. 5th, 2021
on Dead Stare. +++ The Nervous Hex | Links INSTAGRAM : BANDCAMP : DEAD STARE +++ Josh Bloom at Fanatic
Promotion | Contact WEBSITE
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“Infectious hooks, crashing drums and
guitars, and delicious harmonies... Punk energy... Music that is made for
jumping around to.” — Glide Magazine Based in her adopted home town of Grøa, Norway, Hilarie Sidney and her band The High Water Marks have just released
“Jenny,” the band’s first new music
since the 2020 release of Ecstasy Rhymes, its first album in
13 years. Check out “Jenny” now via Glide
Magazine or the links above. “Jenny” kicks off a series of singles that will culminate in
another all-new album Proclaimer of Things on Feb. 4th, 2022. “That’s a song that came out super fast,” Sidney says. “I sat on the couch
playing the chord progression and immediately singing, ‘Jenny’s got herself a
friend and she wants to stay out late.’ Per
Ole (Hilarie’s husband and band mate)
said, ‘Hey, I have a chorus that suits that.’ Five minutes later, we’re playing
the entire song, with almost all the lyrics.” And who is Jenny? “Jenny isn’t a real person,” Sidney explains. “I had heard of Jenny, but I never met her. She
was known as somewhat of a legend around these parts. Everyone talks about what
she did and acts as if they know her. The truth is, it’s hard to know Jenny,
but I’d like to.” +++
Hilarie Sidney from The High Water Markschats
about the band’s upcoming album as well as her Elephant 6 and Apples In Stereo
history in Denver with the city’s own Westword.
Check
it out and feel a mile high!
+++
The High
Water Marks | About
“I am so lucky to have been a musician throughout my
life,” says Hilarie Sidney,
currently fronting The High Water Marks,
and best known as co-founder of the revered musical collective Elephant Six, and one of its three core
bands The Apples In Stereo. Based in her adopted home town of Grøa, Norway, Sidney and The High Water Marks are prepping to release Proclaimer of Things, the
band’s second album in just over a year, following-up the 2020 album Ecstasy
Rhymes, its first album in 13 years. Coming back after such a long stretch of being off the
scene with a critically and commercially welcomed new album, and then quickly
coming in hot with another batch of 13 songs, isn’t an accident. In this case,
it’s a coping mechanism. With the United States reaching a milestone of 1 in
500 people having succumbed to COVID-19, it’s tragic news that this statistic
hits home for Sidney. Her mother,
half a world away, passed from the virus earlier this year. “Not being able to see her and knowing that she was
alone, dying in a nursing home, still haunts me daily,” Sidney courageously reveals. Sidney knew that when she began to build a life in Norway
with her band mate and husband Per Ole
Bratset and their son, that she would be just a 12-hour flight from the
rest of her family, but that 12 hours became something completely different
under lockdown. “I never factored in a pandemic,” she says. “At least
my mom got to hear our record before she passed away. That means a lot to me
because she was always really supportive of my music.” The thirteen songs that comprise Proclaimer of Things are
just a drop in the bucket, considering how much Sidney has leaned on songwriting to take her mind off things. “I feel like I can’t pick up the guitar without
writing a little melody. As therapy, we decided to keep recording. We dove into
the project to keep us sane, focused, and from going down the rabbit hole of
depression and self-pity.” Through it all, The
High Water Marks made an album that is positive, light, happy, and
meaningful. “I think my mom would approve of my method of dealing
with the grief of losing her.” Sidney
says with trademark optimism. Proclaimer of Things, the latest album by The High Water Marks, is scheduled for release on Feb. 4th, 2022 on Minty Fresh. +++ Also
available now by The High Water Marks
The High Water Marks | “Annual
Rings”
The music video for “Annual Rings” by The High
Water Marks was co-created by University of Kentucky students, Wils Quinn and Nicholas Volosky, and produced at the school’s media space The Media Depot. “We were sitting next to the radio on a spring evening
in our small town,” Quinn remembers.
“The next thing we heard was ‘Annual
Rings’ by The High Water Marks
blasting into the quiet Kentucky night. We knew right then and there that we
had to become involved. You could consider it a calling or a spiritual
awakening.” [VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljrUSTi7p_s +++ The High Water Marks Ecstasy
Rhymes Out Now (Minty Fresh) Streaming Link: STREAM FULL LP
Track Listing: 01. Ode To Lieutenant Glahn 02. Annual Rings (VIDEO) 03. Can You (STREAM | VIDEO) 04. Ecstasy Rhymes 05. Award Show (STREAM) 06. Some Like It Lukewarm 07. The Trouble With Friends (STREAM
| VIDEO) 08. I’ll Be Formal (With You Because of It) 09. Pepin le Bref 10. Accidentally On Purpose 11. Satellite 12. Pretending To Be Loud +++ More about
The High Water Marks With The High
Water Marks making many waves with new music these days, it’s worth taking
a moment to remember how we probably know Sidney
best. During her pre-Norway years living in Denver,
Colorado, Sidney became the
co-founder of one of the most influential musical collectives of the past 25
years. The Elephant 6 Recording Co.
is a storied group of artists and Sidney
was as at its nucleus as a founding member. It was a “boys club,” she confesses. Indeed, Sidney
was the only woman among her band The
Apples In Stereo and the other two acts – Neutral Milk Hotel and Olivia
Tremor Control – that were the most visible members of Elephant 6. “Having been in the Apples and on the road since 1993, I started to have many more
songs than could ever be released on an Apples
record, and being surrounded by a group of men for so many years, one can lose
oneself,” she confides. Sidney eventually found a new musical partnership when she
formed The High Water Marks,
releasing a debut album (Songs About The Ocean) in 2003. The
record was written and demoed through the mail with her now-husband and band
mate, Per Ole Bratset, whom she initially
met at an Apples gig in Norway in
2002. A follow-up album (Polar) arrived in 2007. Life as a mom led Sidney
to officially leave the Apples in
2006 and to put the music business on the back burner soon after. She continued
writing songs, however, and headed in a new direction by beginning to finish up
a Bachelor’s degree, which led to her being awarded a prestigious study abroad
scholarship at the University of Oslo. “Moving to Norway was everything I had hoped it would
be,” she explains. Now, thirteen years after releasing her last album as The High Water Marks, the band is back
with new music that reflects the maturity, perseverance, songwriting, and
performing talent that made Sidney’s
contributions to Elephant 6 and The Apples so integral. If she was marginalized in the early days, those
notions are blown out by the wealth of perfect power pop that The High Water Marks has released
since, one song after another that will take any fan of the songs that Sidney contributed to Apples recordings – her voice is
instantly recognizable – right back to the most potent days of that band’s
career. Ecstasy Rhymes” the first album by The High
Water Marks in 13 years, is out now. See below to see “Annual Rings,” the latest video from Ecstasy Rhymes, and for
listening links and more info about the album. +++ The High Water Marks | Links ASSETS : FACEBOOK : INSTAGRAM : SPOTIFY : APPLE : MINTY FRESH +++ Josh Bloom at Fanatic
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