It only continued to take on more meaning when I lost my cousin, and when Sam and I both lost his brother through the course of its production. It’s a musical love letter reflecting on the patchwork of emotions people experience during life and especially, grief. Still driven by the timeless and very primal urge to create, Barille and Meister managed to completely lose their minds only to find them again, in the process revamping their home studio and giving birth to a shape-shifting work that encompasses every piece of psychic tension and relief experienced while creating their new lives.Īs Barille shares, “The album is primarily about the loss of my father, and the light that followed through the birth of my son.
Gnome’s forced hiatus to gather the fragments of their past existence and piece them together into something new and meaningful. Two weeks later, Nicole found out she was pregnant, and so began mr. In late 2017 tragedy struck as Nicole’s father suddenly and unexpectedly passed away. During this time, the perpetually touring duo have built a cult following around North America and Europe thanks in part to their intense, cathartic live performances, as well as their wholly realized visual aesthetic that pushes the limits of a DIY ethos and showcases the band’s self-produced album covers, music videos, and photography. The Cleveland duo of singer/guitarist Nicole Barille and drummer/pianist Sam Meister have been crafting a distinct brand of hypnotic, gritty, astral rock’n’roll since 2005, garnering praise from the likes of Rolling Stone, Spin, NPR, Paste, and Magnet, amongst others.
Throughout its duration, tangled walls of sound give way suddenly, crumbling apart to reveal the golden beauty beneath, a constant ebb and flow of technicolor melody- a diversity that exists in part thanks to in-studio contributions from touring guitarist/bassist Jonah Meister, and mixing by Mark Rankin (Queens of the Stone Age, Adele, Santigold, Iggy Pop, Florence & The Machine, Bloc Party) and Claudius Mittendorfer (Interpol, Tennis, Temples, Panic at the Disco!, Parquet Courts, Ra Ra Riot). It's their first album since 2014's critically acclaimed The Heart of a Dark Star. Gnome, manage to create a sonic snapshot of life, pain, loss, and light that runs the spectrum of human emotion with their new double LP, The Day You Flew Away, set to be released Octoon El Marko Records. By merging these opposing themes into a coherent whole, art-rock duo, mr.
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