Video: Family Band, “Hatred”
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
In our latest issue we profile Family Band, who make eerie folk music directly influenced by the cabin in the Catskills they’ve built for themselves. Their album, Miller Path is full of otherworldly folk songs enhanced by guitarist Jonny Ollsin’s slowed metal guitar flourishes and singer Kim Krans’ husky, world-weary voice. The songs are about the uncertainty of growing older, and although it sounds plain, the uncertainties that come with living in nature in a place that you’ve created. It’s fitting that they’ve linked with director Luke Meyer of SeeThink Films, who has edited down footage of when the couple/band first bought the property and had a trailer wrecking party. It looks like it could have been filmed during some sort of gold rush in the 1800s and you expect a ghost to pop out at any second, which makes sense, considering Family Band built their sound around wonder that is somehow simultaneously wide-eyed and cynical, calm uneasiness, and also living in the middle of nowhere, because that shit is crazy.
The FADER Issue 64 Podcast MP3
- story THE FADER
- photo Jason Nocito (F64)
For our annual photo special, we focused our sights on issues in contemporary America through the stunning domestic and landscape photographs of Peter van Agtmael and Victoria Sambunaris. And who better to reflect the state of the States than Bon Iver, who’s attained cult fame worldwide but prefers to live in the sleepy Wisconsin town of Eau Claire, and Dam-Funk, who resides in middle class South Central Los Angeles but whose music inspires funk utopias. Hence the roster of our latest issue podcast, including Family Band, Volcano Choir, Dam-Funk, Neon Indian, Kyle Hall, Warpaint and Kurt Vile, represents all corners of the USA’s urban decay and rural ramshackleness—with the exception of Fuck Buttons, whose new album is so galactic we think they might be ambassadors from another universe. Download the whole shebang below, and don’t forget to permanently blogline us since we’ll soon be dropping the entire issue on you in pdf form, for free—because in the immortal words of George Michael, you’ve got to give what you taaaaake.
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posted on Oct 6, 2009 in Homepage Top Spotlight, MP3 / STREAMS tags Dam-Funk, FADER 64, Family Band, Fuck Buttons, kurt vile, Kyle Hall, Neon Indian, Volcano Choir, Warpaint
