PROMISE - s/t LP twisted Musicians’ spends eight minutes simmering

Musicians’ spends eight minutes simmering in a slow-building mesh of restlessly strummed strings and White’s textured shuffling across his drum skins while Xylouris’ voice soars with priestly wisdom

razor sharp soundscapes of their ’90s Norwegian forebears

including this new one

or at least his propensity to work with as many different labels as possible

The gap between rich and poor was broadening abruptly into a deep

PROMISE - s/t LP twisted Musicians’ spends eight minutes simmeringHighly recommended by Strangeworld. If youre continuously searching the margins for lost artifacts of the pop pantheon, you can find your daily dose in late period exponents of pure, lean, Beatlesque early 70s power pop, Promise. Originally issued in 1980 on the Boulder, Colorado, area bands own Cumulus label, their eponymous debut is filled with melodic, beatific blasts of pure pop, replete with ringing, jangly guitars, and rollicking crunch. Coled