Record Collector April 2023

A Wednesday song is a quilt. A short story collection, a half-memory, a patchwork of portraits of the American south, disparate moments that somehow make sense as a whole. Karly Hartzman, the songwriter / vocalist / guitarist at the helm of the project, is a story collector as much as she is a storyteller: a scholar of people and one-liners. Rat Saw God, the Asheville quintet’s new and best record, is ekphrastic but autobiographical and above all, deeply empathetic. Across the album’s ten tracks Hartzman, guitarist MJ Lenderman, bassist Margo Shultz, drummer Alan Miller, and lap/pedal steel player Xandy Chelmis build a shrine to minutiae. Half-funny, half-tragic dispatches from North Carolina unfurling somewhere between the wailing skuzz of Nineties shoegaze and classic country twang, that distorted lap steel and Hartzman’s voice slicing through the din.

Today Acclaimed U.S electronic musician, producer and activist Moby shares a self-directed video for sultry track “sweet moon” ft. Choklate, plus Jung remix. He has also shared news of a 3rd street DJ Mix, due out August 15, 2024, that will feature new and unreleased remixes of music from his new album, always centered at night, mixed together by Moby.

Today Acclaimed U.S electronic musician, producer and activist Moby shares a self-directed video for sultry track “sweet moon” ft. Choklate, plus Jung remix. He has also shared news of a 3rd street DJ Mix, due out August 15, 2024, that will feature new and unreleased remixes of music from his new album, always centered at night, mixed together by Moby.