Paradise of Bachelors

Jennifer Castle: Angels of Death (PoB-041)

A sublime meditation on mortality and memory, ghosts and grief, Angels of Death casts a series of spells against forgetting and finality, in the form of mystic-minimalist country-soul torch songs about writing, time travel, and spectral visitations. "a new album for everyone to fall in love with" – The FADER Read More

by David Smith on Mar 7, 2018 • 1 Comment

DISCOGRAPHY / Mind Over Mirrors

Mind Over Mirrors: Bellowing Sun (PoB-040)

Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for its world premiere performance, Bellowing Sun is the majestic culmination of composer, harmoniumist, and synthesist Jaime Fennelly’s immersive explorations of the natural world’s sensory dimensions. "A widescreen aura ... oxygen-rich music" – NPR Read More

by David Smith on Jan 29, 2018 • Comments Closed

DISCOGRAPHY / Nap Eyes

Nap Eyes: I’m Bad Now (PoB-033)

In the band's most transparent and personal set of songs to date, singer Nigel Chapman interrogates social, psychological, and spiritual milieus for clues about the elusive nature of knowledge. “Much ado about meaninglessness with rock 'n' roll songs that shake offbeat and smart lyrics wrapped in bemused ennui.” – NPR Music Read More

by David Smith on Jan 10, 2018 • Comments Closed

DISCOGRAPHY / Red River Dialect

Red River Dialect: Broken Stay Open Sky (PoB-039)

The London-based band (with Cornish roots) brings a windswept energy and daylight to a contemplative, gorgeously rendered suite of songs about inhabiting the landscape, and our bodies, in joy and pain alike. "Radiates a beaming light ... it feels like a burden lifted." – NPR Music Read More

by David Smith on Nov 14, 2017 • Comments Closed

DISCOGRAPHY / Gun Outfit

Gun Outfit: Out of Range (PoB-036)

Like a stone eroded by years in the arroyo, Gun Outfit’s “Western expanse” aesthetic has become gradually smoother. Their fifth LP ranks as their most brutally beautiful statement yet. “Cactus-chewing, smoke-signaled rock music that perpetually rolls towards sundown... cowboy poetry swirled in honky-tonk postmodernism” – NPR Music Read More

by David Smith on Sep 6, 2017 • 3 Comments

DISCOGRAPHY / The Weather Station

The Weather Station: The Weather Station (PoB-035)

On her fourth album, Tamara Lindeman reinvents her acclaimed songcraft, framing her precisely detailed prose-poem narratives in bolder musical settings. It’s her most emotionally candid statement to date, a work of profound urgency & artistic generosity. “Few songwriters capture these subtle moments with such fluidity” – Pitchfork Read More

by paradiseofbachelors on Jul 18, 2017 • 4 Comments

NEWS

Nap Eyes / NEWS

Happy Release Day to Nap Eyes.

by paradiseofbachelors on Mar 9, 2018 • No Comments

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.”

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Do Right Women: A Playlist.

by paradiseofbachelors on Mar 8, 2018 • No Comments

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.

Mind Over Mirrors / NEWS

Mind Over Mirrors Shares “Vermillion Pink” via Noisey, with Interview.

by paradiseofbachelors on Mar 8, 2018 • No Comments

Mind Over Mirrors has shared “Vermillion Pink,” a new track that offers a dark, devotional take on the rhythmic drone music perfected on the upcoming double-album Bellowing Sun, along with an in-depth interview with Noisey, who call the album “so powerful, so alive, that it carries a meaning all its own.”