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ARTIST
SKY FURROWS
TITLE
Relect and Oppose
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
FEEDING TUBE RECORDS
CATALOG #
FTR 735LP
FTR 735LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
12/22/2023
Albany, New York's
Sky Furrows
-- guitarist
Mike Griffin
, bassist
Eric Hardiman
, drummer
Phil Donnelly
and poet/vocalist
Karen Schoemer
-- release their second album,
Relect and Oppose
. Recorded in 2022 with
Justin Pizzoferrato
at Sonelab Studios and
Pete Donnelly
at Katonah Sound, the album's eight songs crush and crunch, agitate and sprawl. All songs were written by Schoemer/Grifin and arranged by Sky Furrows, except for "Koba Grozny," with music by Grifin and words adapted by Schoemer from
Martin Amis
's 2002 book
Koba the Dread
. Sky Furrows formed in 2016 and released their self-titled debut album in 2020 on Tape Drift/Skell/Philthy Rex Records, but band members had been crossing each other's paths for decades. Schoemer and Hardiman overlapped in the late '80s at WCWM, a college radio station in Virginia. In the late '80s and '90s, Donnelly used to trek from his home in Saratoga Springs to Hoboken, New Jersey to see shows at the legendary club Maxwell's, where Schoemer was a regular. By the mid 2000's all four were living upstate. Grifin, Hardiman and Donnelly have roots in the local experimental scene and are longtime members of Albany psych band
Burnt Hills
. Schoemer, a former music critic for the New York Times, was developing her craft as a poet and began contributing to music projects around 2013. She has an MFA in creative writing from The Writer's Foundry in Brooklyn, NY and collaborates with
Mike Watt
in the bassvoice duo
Jaded Azurites
and with
Oli Heffernan
and his rotating cast of free-jazzers in
Ivan the Tolerable
. Grifin records and performs as
Parashi
and with the band
Valley of Weights
; Hardiman operates solo as
Rambutan
and plays in
Century Plants
and
Spiral Wave Nomads
. Sky Furrows' aggregated knowledge of, dedication to, and participation in postpunk, psych and experimental music scenes is vast and deep. This institutional commitment infuses every moment of
Relect and Oppose
. Grifin's razor shred and calamitous distortion and a foil in Schoemer's semi-spoken delivery and onslaught of observations and images. In "Shopping Bags" a woman doesn't realize the loneliness she's carrying around, while "No Cause for Concern" relentlessly builds into a mental and physical breakdown. Hang on the words or cruise on waves of sound --
Relect and Oppose
melds both, forcefully.
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