"free wheelin' in a laundromat"
"Astral Humming" by Athens, Georgia based Lo Talker is truly sublime in it's artistic presentation, in it's elegant execution and it's lush, ever so lush loveliness. It is one of those songs that, given the right circumstances, can create little skating chills across your arms, can make you sadly smile (or cry) and can make you believe in the healing potential of music, of song. That's all I have to say, there is no need to describe this beautiful song. Just go listen to it.
Andrew Shepard made the right decision.
-Robb Donker Curtius
Andrew Shepard was looking for a fresh start. The Athens, Georgia-based guitarist and songwriter had been acting as the frontman for his previous band, Roadkill Ghost Choir, for eight years, playing every major festival, Late Night With David Letterman, and touring alongside Band of Horses. But Shepard was feeling constrained by the expectations placed on him in that band. He felt that their songs had to sound a certain way—dark, foreboding, and moody—and he wanted to break out of that mold and start with a clean slate. “We did a lot of cool stuff and had a great time doing it” Shepard says. “But I wanted to sonically explore stuff I hadn’t been able to really do before.” Though he didn’t know it at the time, that was when his new project, Lo Talker, was born.
Shepard is joined by his brother Zach (bass), who also played in Roadkill Ghost Choir, as well as Alec Stanley (guitar/keyboard), Rhett Fuller (guitar), and Jeremiah Johnson (drums) for A Comedy of Errors: a lush, intricate and quirky album of expansive noisy folk rock augmented by the psychedelic whirr of fractured tape loops. The album was produced, mixed, and engineered by longtime friend of the band, Kevin Ratterman, known for his work with similar southern rock inspired indie acts like Jim James, My Morning Jacket, and Strands Of Oak, at his studio in Los Angeles.
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