ORCUTT SHELLEY MILLER Cometh.
Chaz MartensteinMy ear has been bent! And my brain is likely to follow! A shop regular just casually dropped that he'd caught wind of an upcoming BILL ORCUTT, STEVE SHELLEY, and ETHAN MILLER collaboration! Wild, precise players on their own, what kind of worlds will be released when they come together?? A marriage of minds inside SONIC YOUTH, COMETS ON FIRE, HOWLIN' RAIN, and HARRY PUSSY has hurricane level potential. Storms of blistering musicality and frenetic technicality. I think I'm excited. Coming in September!
PRE-ORDER / RESERVE: Orcutt Shelley Miller - Orcutt Shelley Miller LP (COMING)
Words from the label (Ethan Miller's Silver Current Records):
Orcutt Shelley Miller is an avant-rock trio comprised of three highly celebrated figures of experimental music: Bill Orcutt (Harry Pussy), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) and Ethan Miller (Howlin Rain, Comets On Fire).
Following in the footsteps of the high-firing free jazz and European outer-rock bands of the ’60s and ’70s and the Pacific Rim’s subterranean reimagining of “rock” form in the ’90s, Orcutt Shelley Miller utilize explosive group chemistry, focused intention and chance to pursue the creation of song in its rawest, purest form.
“The landscape Orcutt Shelley Miller inhabits lies deep in the stoner American bedrock, fed by volcanic riffage and hypnotic phrasing with rhythmic nods to the SoCal ’60s and atonal slash piled on a mid ’80s SST punk-fusionoid substrate, ultimately blasting a ‘big rock statement’ that treads the line between good times and blown minds.” —Tom Carter