Holding Pattern, by Slow Clarity

Holding Pattern

by Slow Clarity

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Weirdo Shrine breathtaking, you lose the idea of what a guitar duo could or should be. Through cinematic soundscapes, alt country vistas, and many other adventurous musical wanderings Slow Clarity shows what “just two guys playing guitars” are fully capable of. Favorite track: In the Bramble.

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	1.	In the Bramble 05:22
	2.	The Man who owned the Sky 05:40
	3.	Blue Stockings and Last Two Names 05:57
	4.	Transient Global Amnesia 03:01
	5.	2016 Improved Tone 04:18
	6.	Gut Check 06:10
	7.	The Circlemaker 01:29
	8.	JGPT 04:57
	9.	Phase Lag 00:51
	10.	Nokomis Special 03:29

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'There’s a tireless psychedelia to any decent friendship–the first proud, igneous layers that crystallize in themselves the sparks of kindredness and easy trust, pressed into place by the myriad swirling and contrasting miracles that accumulate over time, like laughter, the friction of the honest, the comfortable quietness, the exuberant celebration of the same old rock, the confounding and the boundless understanding.

Planting a modern tongue in the fattened cheek of tradition, Steve and Matt are found here to be effortlessly conversational. Reasoning and wandering are both given equal range and are infused with equal enthusiasm across the course of these ten pieces–vignettes unfurl like fits of sunlight amidst foliage in a lazy turn of breeze, and beautifully lopsided bells of thought burst into brilliant pealing. Woozy half-thoughts bubble forth from the agreeable mud of a patch you might have trodden before, but never in the shoes you’re wearing now. The many forks of the path may lead you to solemn contemplation, teary-eyed mirth, cynical certainty, bright happiness, near-unbearable sorrow, or–mercifully–nowhere in particular, a peaceful place to rest for a little while.

Everything begins to feel deliciously cyclical, yet endlessly various.

You watch the moments fold into hours, days, weeks, years, decades, and then you suddenly find yourself steely-eyed, imagining the impossibly eternal plane. It is frighteningly unknowable and indefinable, but you remind yourself that you retain the power to laughingly and joyfully embrace it, because you are not alone, and every approach is worthy of your time.'

Jen Powers.

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released March 13, 2023

Holding Pattern was recorded at our homes in Minneapolis and St. Paul on stereo reel-to-reel, phones, and other media between 2015 and 2022.

Written, recorded, and performed by Steve Palmer and Matt Beachey
Mixed by Matt Beachey
Mastered by Anders Peterson
Design and layout by Atharwa Deshingkar

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Ramble Records is an Independent record label based in Melbourne, Australia specialising in under-represented outsider music: guitar music, acid/avant folk, psych, no wave, post-punk, free / spiritual jazz, Indian classical, Middle Eastern, and avant-garde sounds from around the globe. ... more

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