Picture by Beau Patrick Coulon
Guts Membership, that experimental doomgaze trio from New Orleans that we premiered a pair years in the past, is again as an experimental doomgaze quartet, now with a baritone sax within the combine. The brand new single they’re unleashing, “Keep in mind the Mountains,” finds the fearsome foursome—Lindsey Baker (guitar/vocals), L. Jett (baritone sax/synth), Abbey Byers (drums/bell), Violet Jimenez (guitar)—grinding by a haunting seven-minute meditation on longing to return to a spot that will not need or settle for you. It’s heavy each lyrically and musically, constructing to a throbbing drone, punctuated by deep sax blasts and mournful vocals.
The brand new single is the primary from the band’s upcoming second album, Please Come Again to the Farm, which was recorded reside in (largely) one take by Nick Pope at Shade Tone Studio in New Orleans. The four-tracker is about for launch on March 14, however you should purchase the one, which releases immediately, and preorder the album right here. Additionally take a look at some reside dates listed under the one.
That is how the band described the brand new single:
“‘Keep in mind The Mountains’ examines conflicted emotions of residence, security and household. The farm acts as each a literal farm inside the requisite structural and rural areas, in addition to a metaphoric sense located contained in the narrative of queer children rising up in small, conservative communities.
Two of us have been raised on differing ends of Appalachia. We each proceed to expertise robust emotions of sentimentality that run counter to our identities. We wish to return residence, to run with the horses, to look out over the mountains, however that is usually bodily unsafe and emotionally difficult.
The lyric ‘bear in mind the mountains and the way you could possibly by no means transfer them, trigger the farm stood in your method’ describes a longing to reconnect with our start communities met with the inflexibility of conservative ideologies to soundly enable for that. We can’t transfer mountains, we can’t change folks’s minds.”
Upcoming reside dates:
1/24/25 O’Loss of life Cafe, San Antonia, TX with FAUNS
1/25/25 Chess Membership, Austin, TX with FAUNS
1/26/25 Intracoastal Membership, Houma, LA with FAUNS
