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Purchase from Bandcamp: https://desertliminal.bandcamp.com/album/glass-fate

“I don’t need no southbound highway sign to tell me HELL IS REAL”.

This opening line from the debut single “New Tongue” launches us into the sophomore album Glass Fate by the Chicago based Desert Liminal. Glass Fate takes us through a Lost Highway trip into the subconscious of Sarah Jane Quillin’s year while writing this record. The songs form a collective meditation on Quillin’s hope and grief while processing the loss of a parent, the end of a beloved band Heavy Dreams (a collaboration with DEHD’s Emily Kempf), and witnessing the surreal near-death experience of her best friend, Desert Liminal’s drummer Rob Logan, during one of their shows. Channeling this heaviness into soaring and simmering experimental indie rock, Desert Liminal’s sound is marked by Quillin’s spectral vocal melodies layered over warm, looping walls of vintage synthesizer and violin filtered through a distortion pedal array. Rob Logan’s drumming ranges from driving post-punk drum grooves to thoughtful, held back polyrhythms that serve and elevate the record.

Completing this subverted power trio, violinist and prolific noise artist Mallory Linehan (Chelsea Bridge) joined in 2019, perfecting the trio’s sound with spacious strings and tape loops that blend into the warm wash of resonating reverb and delay. A first listen of Glass Fate reveals a band with an astute ear for creating warm, engaging art-pop that entwines Quillin’s eliding delivery around smart hooks and introspective, bordering on melancholy, melodies. The further these songs move from the source they begin slipping into headier terrain creating neck-craning audio fields of droning violins and looped voice that recall Tony Conrad at his most accessible and Haley Fohr’s experimentations with voice and breath. These sounds cohabitate in the liminal space where meaning and reference slowly fade into Jungian archetype and back again through the trio’s strong grasp on solid, reality-affirming songwriting.

Desert Liminal - Watercolor

Little Star

Little Star (Acoustic Version)

lyrics-
I'm scared that I'll never get better, 
15 degrees, I’m not liking this weather. 

Don’t know how, I made it this far, in a glass house, hiding battle scars. And I wish you, saved me from the start, and I wish I fell into safe arms. 

I don’t wanna stay, I don’t wanna stay home, if I could run away, I’d run away far. And I would wait, I’d wait the by the phone. for someone, to want me back home.

The only thing, I wanted ever, 
Was for someone, to like me better. 

Don’t know how, i made it this far, my feet have walked me through, a ton. And when i found him. He held me with his arms. And I realized, what I was taught was so wrong.  

So I don’t wanna stay, I don’t wanna stay home, if I could run away, I’d run away far. And I would wait, I’d wait by the phone. for someone to want me back home.
And I’d stay, I’d still stay gone. Cus I needed to love myself all along.

If I Could Run Away

keybinds-the life of a wife//daycore

crumbling

'Ruthless' is an anthemic indie pop banger about fighting for what you believe in and what you want out of life. It stems from the rollacoaster effect of life's instability. It is about pushing away from societal pressures to go down a certain path to be seen as 'success' and instead carving your on way.

Ruthless

Olivia Kaplan - "Ghosts"

New single taken from the upcoming LP  'No More Summer Songs' from Phantom Handshakes.

Written and recorded by Phantom Handshakes
Mastered by Carl Saff

Skin

From the new album, PROOF, out now on Refresh Records.

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