Many thanks to Pitchfork for their wide-ranging & whip-smart 8.0 Mind Over Mirrors Bellowing Sun review, which proclaims the album “a sci-fi symphony” of “ecstatic hillbilly raga krautrock drone” that ranks as “one of the decade’s true experimental wonders.” Thanks also to Dusted for their kind assessment: “by turns as stilling as a gaze at an oceanic horizon, as remote as an unmapped Appalachian hollow, and as bracing and immersive as a winter gale.”
This week, The Weather Station, Terry Allen, and a PoB crew will descend upon the small West Texas town of Marfa for the third annual Marfa Myths festival. On Thursday, April 12, The Weather Station and Terry Allen are sharing a bill, followed by a drag show. We’ll have a big ol’ house in town. Come on by for a visit and a sip of mezcal.
The spectacular new Mind Over Mirrors album is out today! After nearly three years of composing, rehearsing, building, and preparing, the spectacular Bellowing Sun is finally out in the world. The piece will also receive its live premiere at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago tonight and tomorrow, April 6–7.
Uproxx has premiered a new video for “Matchstick Grip,” filmed by Julia Dratel at MCA Chicago and featuring extensive footage of the band performing beneath the monumental zoetrope that was conceived and built in tandem with the writing and arranging of the music.
On the heels of SXSW, where The Weather Station was named one of “17 Acts That Stood Out” by the New York Times and one “30 Best Artists We Saw” by Rolling Stone, The Weather Station kick off an international headline tour and share the new video for “Impossible,” shot and edited by Tamara Lindeman and Colin Medley. As Lindeman describes it, “This was one of these late night, half asleep ideas. A sort of child-like play on free will.”
The MCA Chicago has released a short film about the process of creating Mind Over Mirrors’ Bellowing Sun performances. The initial run of two performances has sold out, and a 3rd performance has been added at 10 pm CST on Friday, April 6th.
Following his tour supporting Jeff Tweedy in January, James Elkington returns to the UK an EU for a headline tour in April. Don’t miss this first-ever solo tour of the continent.
Thanks to Uncut Magazine for their kind and perceptive review of Mind Over Mirrors’ Bellowing Sun, as well as their inclusion of not one, but two album tracks, “Halfway to the Zenith/Oculate Beings,” on the covermount CD of the latest issue. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago performances on April 6–7 are now officially sold out.
Nap Eyes’ new album I’m Bad Now is out today! The Ides of March are nearly upon us; grip a copy before it’s too late. “I went out walking with my headphones on/Classical Indian raga twenty minutes long/Then I listened to old American folk song/A little bit shorter, still a lot going on.”
Happy International Women’s Day. Female artists and colleagues are the heart and soul of PoB. Their talent and hard work amaze us daily, and they keep us from dragging our knuckles and inspire us to be better humans. It’s a shit business already, dudes, let’s stop making it even shittier for women.
