No News From Home

No News From HomeNo News From Home is the 2nd LP from Portland, Oregon quartet Houndstooth and the follow up to Ride Out The Dark. That record was labeled "one of 2013's all too overlooked delights" by SPIN while their hometown Portland Mercury called it "an extraordinarily good album, a perfect representation of the band's trademark balancing of ease and passion." News is an altogether more mature record that widens the bands sound: from Velvets style churners to

Druzd eortlessly marshals through the sonic undertow while Razo rudders his bass like a brilliant pulse in a spasmodic vortex

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but also because it traverses so many moods and styles: languid and dreamy one moment

Laddio Bolocko were a band from New York City in the mid-90's who toured the US and Europe relentlessly during their 4 year run

the record evokes a restless spirit

They bounce along

The wind blowing through Osage orange and pine trees is the joy and ache and urgency of these songs

Do you know that line of Wendell Berry’s “make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came”

Friends and collaborators came into town and contributed from afar

persistently established a style marked by a depth and a complexity that are utterly his own