Burnt Brown Artists
Speck Mountain
Speck Mountain are a space-rock band possessed as much by the grit of southern soul as the spell of infinite drones. Co-leaders Karl Briedrick and Marie-Claire Balabanian provoke each other with intuitive, womb-curled melody, exploded texture, and spiky, strutting rhythm—and so far I’m just talking about the guitars. Marie-Claire also keeps a full-sized Aretha loaded in her throat like some kind of ungodly spring reverb, but has the sense to only let her…
Valet
Honey Owens’ wraith-like vocals and singular, implosive guitar work have helped bands such as Jackie-O Motherfucker and Nudge find some of their most transcendent moments. But her solo project, Valet, plugs directly into vast, mystical currents that are inaccessible to conventional song structure. Her soundscapes are minimal: voice, guitar, and tranced percussion emerge gradually out of an ether of pure sound, conjuring intense, ambivalent emotions, which then dissipate slowly according to some obscure…
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