*International Buyers please use the bandcamp link to purchase. Shipping via website is to lower 48 United States only.
“We here at the busy and bustling Dead Currencies offices have been waiting on this one. Between manning fax machines, assembling spreadsheets and pie charts, and preparing for the annual parade of year-end holiday parties, we found time to coax the dudes in Lemon Quartet to stop hanging out without their instruments and get back to hanging out with their instruments. And hitting record when they do, and then demanding they sift through the jam sessions and find all the nice things they know we like and mix it all down into a beautiful and unique snowflake that we could press into a vinyl LP. And well, that’s exactly what they did. We didn’t even know we had that kind of pull, to be honest.
Lemon pals, Stephen Clements, Corey Farrow, Keith Freund, and G.S. Schray, veterans of the close-knit Akron, Ohio music scene, one and all, have been busy, just not with Lemon Quartet. With the focus on a string of recent solo efforts and various other collaborations, together and apart, it had been a while since the quartet gathered at Clements' home with snacks from the gas station, to choose instruments, set up a mic or two and see what happens. What happened was “Rants of Mystery” Built on loose improvisations, hazy textures, and a healthy disregard for over-production (hallmarks of any Lemon LP), “Rants” finds its true charm in the space between. Fender Rhodes, vibraphone, guitar, bass, saxophone and synth all swirling and occasionally grounded by a shifting drum beat. It lives in the accidental, the unfinished and the unpolished. All of the unfussy intimacy and ambience is here. The easy atmosphere disguises the intricately layered melodies unfolding with an aplomb only achievable in capable hands. The years of midwest musical history, built from house shows, art shows and countless rehearsal spaces in various configurations have granted our humble heroes the uncanny ability to make the complex seem uncomplicated.
No grand concept. No expensive studio (...no studio at all, actually). No particularly urgent need and no fussy affectations, with some tracks being recorded on a single room mic and with minimal overdubs, “Rants of Mystery” delivers effortless, lo-fi, ambient interpretations in a compact and efficient solid gold nugget. In other words, Lemon Quartet is back.
Recorded by S.C. & mastered by Mike Tolan.
*International Buyers please use the bandcamp link to purchase. Shipping via website is to lower 48 United States only.
“We here at the busy and bustling Dead Currencies offices have been waiting on this one. Between manning fax machines, assembling spreadsheets and pie charts, and preparing for the annual parade of year-end holiday parties, we found time to coax the dudes in Lemon Quartet to stop hanging out without their instruments and get back to hanging out with their instruments. And hitting record when they do, and then demanding they sift through the jam sessions and find all the nice things they know we like and mix it all down into a beautiful and unique snowflake that we could press into a vinyl LP. And well, that’s exactly what they did. We didn’t even know we had that kind of pull, to be honest.
Lemon pals, Stephen Clements, Corey Farrow, Keith Freund, and G.S. Schray, veterans of the close-knit Akron, Ohio music scene, one and all, have been busy, just not with Lemon Quartet. With the focus on a string of recent solo efforts and various other collaborations, together and apart, it had been a while since the quartet gathered at Clements' home with snacks from the gas station, to choose instruments, set up a mic or two and see what happens. What happened was “Rants of Mystery” Built on loose improvisations, hazy textures, and a healthy disregard for over-production (hallmarks of any Lemon LP), “Rants” finds its true charm in the space between. Fender Rhodes, vibraphone, guitar, bass, saxophone and synth all swirling and occasionally grounded by a shifting drum beat. It lives in the accidental, the unfinished and the unpolished. All of the unfussy intimacy and ambience is here. The easy atmosphere disguises the intricately layered melodies unfolding with an aplomb only achievable in capable hands. The years of midwest musical history, built from house shows, art shows and countless rehearsal spaces in various configurations have granted our humble heroes the uncanny ability to make the complex seem uncomplicated.
No grand concept. No expensive studio (...no studio at all, actually). No particularly urgent need and no fussy affectations, with some tracks being recorded on a single room mic and with minimal overdubs, “Rants of Mystery” delivers effortless, lo-fi, ambient interpretations in a compact and efficient solid gold nugget. In other words, Lemon Quartet is back.
Recorded by S.C. & mastered by Mike Tolan.
