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While many efforts have been made to describe the music of Speck Mountain, one must jump in headfirst on their own to fully absorb the band’s textured and melodic sound. Deep within their sonic landscape is something innately recognizable––maybe it calls to mind a dozy record player hazing over ’60s soul, a dream, a scrap of a memory cloaked in that fuzzy atmosphere. By their own definition, “ambient soul” seems the most apt. It is a sound that surrounds us, warm and round––a sound that seems like it was always there. 

The same could be said of how the band began. Self-described “musical soul mates,” Marie-Claire Balabanian and Karl Briedrick appear to have lived out parallel lives in the suburban sprawls of Los Angeles and Detroit respectively before finding each other in New York City in the early-2000s. Now based in Chicago, the duo share song writing duties in the formative stages––Balabanian doles out her soulful vocals and Briedrick crafts rich sonic textures in bass and guitar in the final cuts.     

For their third album together Badwater, the creative partners have added drummer Chris Dye, previously of Chin Up Chin Up, and Linda Malonis, a former pentacostal church pianist turned drone-rock organist. 

Bonded by an almost mystical connection and a musical intuition Balabanian and Briedrick have cultivated together, Speck Mountain will release Badwater on Carrot Top Records in January 2013 with tour dates to be announced. 


Invisible Cities were four friends operating bass, drums, guitar, viola, and sometimes a keyboard.  No member ever volunteered as vocalist.  They spent eight years experimenting with overcomplicating things, speeding up, slowing down, falling in and out of love with loop pedals, unnecessary time changes, repetition, breaking it down, awkward banter, bringing the beat back in, soundtracking a short film, beards, playing the same thing at different times, and different things at the same time, contemporary dancers, and tunes.    Eventually they settled on something a little bit technical, a little bit danceable, and a little bit beautiful.  Only one of their songs has a designated post-rock bit.

Invisible Cities' debut/final album, Rarities, will be released on Messrs. Kick & Drum on 26 May 2017.

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Juffage is Jeff T. Smith, a sound artist and multi-instrumentalist from Leeds UK, via Chicago, Illinois.

Through relentless touring in the U.S.A., U.K., and Europe, Jeff has established a reputation for his sonically powerful and physically captivating live shows.

His debut album ‘Semicircle’ was released to critical acclaim from the Guardian, NME, Loud & Quiet, Artrocker, and Drowned in Sound, with airplay on BBC Radio 1 and 6 Music.  A recording enthusiast at heart, Jeff has spent time in some of Chicago’s finest studios including Electrical Audio (w/ Steve Albini) and Engine Studios (w/ Brian Deck).

Currently finishing a follow-up LP, he has collaborated with Katie Harkin (Harkin, Sky Larkin, Wild Beasts, Sleater-Kinney), Tom Evans (Vessels) and Jenna Isherwood (Invisible Cities).  Previously, he has shared the stage with artists such as Deerhoof, Balmorhea, Dosh, Mount Eerie, Cloud Nothings, Xiu Xiu, Portico Quartet, Three Trapped Tigers, and Nat Baldwin (Dirty Projectors), and performed at festivals including ArcTanGent, Beacons, Tramlines, In The Woods, Rewire, Carefully Planned, Long Division, and Fell Foot Sound.

We have uploaded Dead Peasants to our bandcamp page so it is now downloadable.
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Home to Mi Mye, Dancing Years, Department M, Post War Glamour Girls, Sam Airey plus more to come in 2017 and 2018...

Music by and relating to Dominick Gray, drummer and creator of Telesonic 9000 and Alright Gandhi.

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