With 2025 already feeling somewhat weighed down with algorithmically-enhanced gloom, we’re undoubtedly going to need some sheer aural abandonment to get through the remaining pre-spring period… and indeed beyond. Enter then two new releases following divergent trajectories, aligned towards taking us away from it all.
Rose City Band
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Thrill Jockey It is interesting that in the time between the release of 2020’s Summerlong and this year’s Earth Trip, there has been no new music from either Wooden Shjips or Moon Duo, giving the impression that the ease of recording the solo stuff as Rose City Band and the […]
Thrill Jockey As Ripley Johnson strips away colleagues and friends, going from the four-piece Wooden Shjips to the two-piece Moon Duo and finally to the solo Rose City Band, so the enjoyment factor seems to increase as if, in reality, this is what he would choose to do.