BTV103 Oldermost : It’s Difficult To Know Anything At All
Oldermost “It’s Difficult To Know Anything At All” (btv103) cd/cass Buy cd Online Buy cassette Online Track listing: 1. Time To Go (1:58) 2. Electric Light Eyes (4:21) 3. Be Still (5:08) 4. A Drink (Or Two) (3:41) 5. Leave It Alone (7:15) |
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Philadelphia’s Oldermost will release It’s Difficult To Know Anything At All in May 2015. The five-song EP playfully revisits the heavy inquiries of their full-length debut I Live Here Now, which was produced by Jonathan Low (Sharon Van Etten, Daniel Rossen, Kurt Vile, Mr. Twin Sister), but does so by building tension both centripetally and centrifugally around the dark and whimsical center of questioning and wonder never quite arriving at any answers. The songs, produced in their Philadelphia studio, are filled with questionable advice, despairing wit, contradictions and an ever-present affinity for popular song construction. This release welcomes guitarist Mike Sobel whose lap-steel performance was featured on The War on Drugs’ phenomenal release Lost In The Dream (“Eyes to The Wind”). The songs on It’s Difficult To Know Anything At All blend influences from sources like Bill Fay and Harry Nilsson to Wilco, Jim James, and Father John Misty to create a genre-bending classical sound with warmth, harmony, and luscious reverb. Oldermost have been called “Atmosphericana Rockers” whose “sound is gorgeous and expansive, blending traditional songwriting motifs and blue-eyed soul harmonies with an uplifting and emphatically modern guitar rock attack … with a surplus of texture and ambition, one that doesn’t recognize the self-imposed barriers you typically find in the Americana scene” –WXPN’s The Key Oldermost “mix[es] pop elements with nodes of soulful Americana and alternative rock laying the foundation for Bucknum’s booming voice”–thatmusicmag.org “Envision, if you will, a few weeks from now when the air is the perfect mixture of warmth and crispness and everything seems a bit nicer and bright. Why yes, we would like to read outside, thanks. Listening to [“A Drink (Or Two)”] helps us leapfrog from the wet unpleasant right now into these sun-drenched days ahead.”–Philebrity |