Listen to ‘lowcountry‘ the new single from more eaze & claire rousay, named for a bar in San Antonio where they spent much of their formative years playing in country outfits and noise rock bands respectively.
“I went to that bar a lot by myself, but I’ve been there a lot with mari too,” notes rousay. “At one point I was living somewhere that was close by. This was in a more unhinged time for me and was like ‘mari, did you want to come over and rage?'” maurice adds: “There’s a throughline of the track ‘limelight, illegally’ to this, where some of the bartenders who worked at Limelight moved to lowcountry. This is the most unhinged track in a way. When we decided this one was lowcountry claire was adding a lot and pushing it I decided, ‘ok, I’m going to push it even more too.'”
The ‘dynamic swells and haywire electronics’ finally fade out to a field recording of a passing train that almost disrupts the dream, jarring you into the present…its arrival made me think of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Evil Does Not Exist’, the ending of which leaves you rethinking the whole film and its context…so I played lowcountry again; from the outside looking in, it’s a pretty surreal and affectionate offering.
The track is taken from no floor (Mar. 21st – Thrill Jockey), an album ‘born of the deep connection between the duo, built from strands of familiarity and surprise, the two buttressing one another as they push themselves as instrumentalists, composers, and artists to unexplored boundaries.’
more eaze & claire rousay tour dates
Apr. 10 – Chicago, IL – Museum of Surgical Sciences
Apr. 11 – Toronto, ON – Monarch Tavern
Apr. 13 – Brooklyn, NY – Roulette
more eaze tour dates
Mar. 25 – Baltimore, MD – Ottobar *
Mar. 26 – Richmond, VA – The Warehouse *
Mar. 27 – Raleigh, NC – Kings *
Mar. 28 – Big Ears Festival
Mar. 30 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade Purgatory *
Apr. 1 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall Upstairs *
Apr. 2 – Austin, TX – The Ballroom *
Apr. 3 – Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves *
Apr. 5 – St. Louis, MO – The Sinkhole *
Apr. 6 – Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups *
- w/ Chanel Beads
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