GG King - Esoteric Lore LPFor myself this is year zero of what I consider the Atlanta sound of the last 15 years. There was something new germinating post Carbonas that began to embrace a darker side and reveal a more complex facade. I'm not saying it didn't exist before Esoteric Lore, but upon release it was this summation of what was unfolding. It may not be obvious, but geographically Atlanta is somewhat isolated in the context of touring bands. That's not to say that we

are the latest releases in a multiyear reissue effort that includes several LPs

the New Haven crew’s in-house producer/engineer

excelling as a bass player here and general instrumental conductor of an echoey and wide-open sound partially transported from the hinterlands

the songs project a kind of clumsy telepathy

their voices summoning ghosts of fortunes past while "Exhaust" finds an aperture in our protagonist's daydream

Once Again The Present Becomes The Past started life as a concept record about Australia’s first and largest air raid

Inspired by decades of well-intended Swedish mission work

seasick-inducing qualities of the best possible kind

Alan Dunn is an artist and curator based between Liverpool and Leeds

Where their 2019 debut had a startling

” as explained by guitarist/singer Parker Allen

Through it all