Many thanks to Pitchfork Advance for streaming Nathan Bowles’ Nansemond. Also, check out a new documentary short about Nathan by filmmaker Jesse Sheppard. It’s Nansemond season!
Steve is getting ready to head to Europe with The War on Drugs–read on on for dates, the beautiful tour poster and a video of the full band at the recent hometown show–which we reckon is as good a reason as any to trumpet some of the staggeringly positive press the record has garnered. Thanks to everyone!
Nansemond, the cinematic new album by Nathan Bowles (Black Twig Pickers, Pelt, Steve Gunn, HGM), is now available for pre-order. Order now and get an immediate download of the song “Chuckatuck,” premiered today by NPR Music, who call it “hypnotic.”
A cinematic suite of contemplative, elastic set pieces that conjures the titular Virginian river/tribe/extinct county, the second solo album by Nathan Bowles (Black Twig Pickers, Pelt, Steve Gunn, HGM) deploys banjo, percussion, piano, and voice to explore the rugged country between the poles of Appalachian old-time traditions and ecstatic, minimalist drone. Featuring Tom Carter.
We are delighted to welcome our friend Brother Nathan Bowles–he of Pelt, The Black Twig Pickers, Steve Gunn’s band, Hiss Golden Messenger, etc.–to the PoB fold. Stay tuned for more details about his forthcoming album Nansemond, which is, in our estimation, one of the best sounding and most sonically immersive albums thus far in the PoB catalog.
