Lamniformes Radio Roundup: April 2021
Plus, more news about my new album
Hooray! It’s release week for You Can’t Do This Alone. Which means that come Friday you can pay a cool $7 and download all eight tracks. The album should be up on streaming shortly there after as well. If all comes according to plan there should be even more cool news about the record dropping today, which means that you should keep an eye on my Twitter account just in case this cool news does indeed drop today. In the mean time, you can watch a video that I made with Noumenah where we dug into the nuts and bolts of his remix of “Deep Despair In Covington, KY”.
With that out of the way, let’s re-cap last month’s run of Lamniformes Radio episodes.
First up, appropriately enough, is an interview with Joseph Klomes. Klomes is responsible for the graphic design for You Can’t Do This Alone, Sisyphean and Lamniformes Radio itself. In addition to being a professional graphic designer, Klomes is the singer/bassist in the post-hardcore band Droughts, the guitarist in the pop-punk band Mush, and recently started a solo ambient project called _unprdctv, which just dropped it’s second EP. Klomes and I talked about that dual designer/musician lifestyle, his experiences playing music in the suburbs of Illinois during the heights of the Victory Records era, accidentally pissing off a bunch of La Dispute fans online, building pedals, and his own return to the suburbs as an adult and parent.
Next, I spoke to Clara Warnaar, who you might know as the drummer for Infinity Shred. Warnaar is also an accomplished classical percussionist with an interest in ambient composition. Over the last two years she’s also curated the compilation series A New Age For New Age, which seeks to re-define the oft-maligned genre by soliciting tracks from musicians that have never previous written new age music. The latest issues of ANA4NA drop this Friday. Warnaar and I talked about New Age generally, her compilations specifically, and also geeked out about a lot of drumming minutiae. We even snuck in some obligatory shit-talking about Whiplash, which is inevitable when you get two drummers together.
Finally, I spoke with artist and composer Randall Taylor, who performs under the name Amulets. Taylor just released his latest album Blooming, which uses haunting tape loops and manipulated electronics to depict the cyclical nature of life. Taylor is also very active on social media, where he posts cleanly framed demonstrations of his process and workflow. I was unfamiliar with Amulets before being pitched this interview, so I did my best to learn about what drew Taylor to this style of music to begin with, as well as why he takes such an open-book approach to his public persona. I think I did a pretty good job!
Alright, that’s all for now. Remember to pre-order You Can’t Do This Alone on my bandcamp now, or pick it up once it drops on Friday.